Negri on globo

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>  > For a couple years on several different lists Doug kept demanding that
>  > "leninists" provide him a scenario for revolution, and more or less took
>  > the absence of such a scenario to be a confession of the impossibility
>  > of revolution. That despite the fact that there have been quite a few
>  > revolutions or near revolutions in nations with modern armies and state
>>  structure in the last 50 years.
>>
>  > The Multitude, on the other hand, seems to exist only in the writings of
>  > Negri and his folowers. And yet we are seemingly to take on faith that
>  > this metaphysical entity will in some wholly unknown way transform the
>  > world in the next 50 years. (If it takes much longer there won't be much
>>  of a world left to transform.)
>>
>>  Carrol
>
>===============
>
>Of course, class-in-itself and class-for-itself aren't metaphysical
>entities............
>
>Ian

It seems to me that "the multitude of particles, atoms, and 
singularities" is an apt name for the masses of consumers, more 
likely status-conscious rather than class-conscious, who experience 
hardships, can articulate particular grievances, but have yet to 
discover sources of their exploitation and oppressions, much less 
uniting in solidarity with other members of the class nationally and 
internationally.
-- 
Yoshie

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