Negri on globo

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>>
>>>>It is not as if international inequality would disappear if the 
>>>>rest of the world all became subjects of the American Empire, as 
>>>>opposed to citizens of their respective nations.
>>>
>>>Here we go again - only two choices.
>>>
>>>Doug
>>
>>Is there any "choice" here?  It's not as though Negri, you, I, or 
>>anyone else can today "choose" not to be a citizen of any nation. 
>>The fate of actually existing stateless persons -- the fate no one 
>>would "choose" -- is a tragic one, as any Palestinian, for 
>>instance, can tell you.
>
>For a revolutionary, you seem remarkably constrained by the present.
>
>Doug

Neither reforms nor revolutions are possible without first of all 
understanding the present, with all its constraints as well as 
possibilities.  As of now, we don't have communist social relations 
that can make statelessness a universal emancipatory condition. 
Instead, we have capitalist social relations that make statelessness, 
literal and virtual, a debilitating burden that befalls an increasing 
number of unfortunate persons and peoples in the periphery....
-- 
Yoshie

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