Yoshie wrote:
> Rejecting democracy and socialism, where will
> self-organizing
> "particles, atoms, singularities" go on the basis of
> "god" in the
> world of the Thirty Years War, "an enormous
> primitive accumulation on
> the world level," with the American army free to
> police the entire
> world?
You should have put the entire phrase in your question. He talks of rejecting the democratic and socialistic management of CAPITAL. Where does he propose the multitude go? Communism! Not to the Big Brother state of "real socialism" in which we have idiots like Madame Mao everything that "the people" are allowed to see, hear, taste and feel . And even in regards to communism, Negri feels it is important to bring up the idea that he sees "Communism" as a political laboratory that will be defined and determined by the "multitudes" and not by a handful of appartchiks.
Also, he feels that policing is taking on a more post-fordist form with the United States developing flexible military forces that can quickly deploy throughout the world to repress the enemies of Empire. Hence his statement about America being free to police the entire world.
Yoshie, you are of course right to raise your objections to Negri. But I find that you often obfuscate his message (either deliberately or because you dont take the time to really try to understand what he is saying).
Thomas
===== "The tradition of all the dead generations
weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"
-Karl Marx
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