The Mystery of Hitchens's

Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com
Fri Nov 29 19:28:37 PST 2002



> The language of _Empire_ is fluffy pretending to be
> dense.
> > (The pretense perhaps fooled the authors
> themselves as well as some of
> > their readers.) It's appeal is that it promises
> revolution without
> > working for one, and without incorporating
> self-criticism into a
> > revolutionary movement. The Multitude is like the
> Pope: infallible.

This is the depth of Karol's understanding of Empire. Impressive. I dont understand where he got the idea that the Multitude is thought of as infallible. Maybe it's the fact that autonomists wouldn't support sending in tanks to crush a student or workers protest that bothers him.

On the one hand, Stalinists like him APE a stereotypical image of workers and on the other hand they declare themselves as a "vanguard" with the right to massacre and oppress millions in the name of socialism because they have "teleology" on their side.

Where did this idea come that there is no self-criticism? If you are talking about one of those shit-faced maoist self-criticisms where you flaggelate yourself before a picture of Chairman Mao, then you are correct, that is not part of the diet.

Thomas

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