----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 2:57 PM Subject: Re: Negri on globo
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> Doug Henwood wrote:
> >
> > The latest from that enemy of the Third World & the working
class -
> > isn't that right, Carrol?
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> I have no particular opinion whatever on Toni Negri as a person. I
don't
> know enough about him. I do know that those who have accepted the
> concept of the multitude as a political category express that
acceptance
> mostly in terms opposing effective working-class organization as
> "authoritarian." You are on the AUT list. Why don't you forward a
random
> selection of their posts with your responses.
>
> Carrol
============= Who has stated that organizing the working class is authoritarian? I thought one of the big enticing projects of socialism was the abolition-attenuation of authoritarian relationships, or is it possible to bring about a non-authoritarian society with authoritarian means? This is one of the reasons many people don't trust lefties; merely as an example brought up earlier, take Brian Becker. I saw him not too long ago on CSPAN. The guy reeked of arrogance and authoritarianism. Why? It seems *totally* counterproductive. There's no necessary correlation between intellectual erudition in one's critique of Capital and arrogance, if anything it should bring about something akin to a physician's patience and demeanor in developing a strategy for curing a complex disease.
Ian