More on Hardt & Negri from Brennan

[.: s0metim3 :.]

It's like a really bad flashback...

Carrol quotes Brennan:

: Writing in the London Review of Books, Malcolm Bull
: tries his best: "Since Marx had shown that social relations were not, in
: fact, the seamless web of bourgeois mythology, but rather the
: battlefield of economic conflict, the class struggle could be waged more
: effectively if the working class disengaged from waged labour and sought
: autonomy for itself."14

Does this actually 'summarise' _Empire_?  Gawd forbid anyone suggest Brennan
hasn't read _Empire_ 'correctly', or even actually read it in full - this
being a dastardly accusation to make, because it is in no way indicated by
the fact that Brennan has to go citing other people's reviews in order to
provide a 'summary' in his own 'review'...

But -- leaving _Empire_ aside -- what precisely is wrong with making an
argument that "the class struggle could be waged more effectively if the
working class disengaged from waged labour and sought autonomy for itself"?

Maybe, better: http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/25/1824207
Where _Empire_ is not simply the requisite irritant in the leninoid friction
machine.

Angela
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