----- Original Message ----- From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 2:17 PM Subject: Re: Negri on globo
> >----- 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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Doesn't this just avoid whether it's a valid presupposition that exploitation is *not* an essentially contestable concept like class or democracy or race and lead us into the thicket of an authoritarian stance towards "all those with false consciousness"?
Ian