> I have heard Callinicos speak and he is far from being
> some "leninoid university lecturer." Ridiculous.
>
> Dave
Of the orthodox marxist critiques of Negri & Hardt, the UK SWP's and ISO's in their magazines, were the least marred by deliberate polemical distortion (and did score well the texts lack of any sustained attn. to empirical data, that any academic marxian political economy text on imperialism, class strcture and conflict engages in as a matter of coarse) but Callinicos and his cohorts like these, http://www.isj1text.ble.org.uk/pubs/isj92/callinicos.htm http://www.isreview.org/issues/21/anti_imperialism.shtml representative texts in the polemical wars (dare I say like Carrol, vs. Carrol, that they were vicious?! Heh...)vs. those revisionist devils Hardt and Negri, are not honest engagements w/ their theses, and exhibit a distorted critique, perhaps unconsciously motivated by resentment that stale party building vanguardists, even critical neo-Trotskyists like the UK SWP, who I've defended from Stalinoid nutters, are being eclipsed by the anti-Leninist autonomists and anarchists...
Issue 92 of INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM JOURNAL Published Autumn 2001 Copyright © International Socialism Toni Negri in perspective ALEX CALLINICOS
ISR issue 21 | The decline of anti-imperialism ... powerful states. In some cases, the argument is explicit, as in the new book Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri: The United ... www.isreview.org/issues/21/anti_imperialism.shtml
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There were basically three forms of totalitarianism.... One was the various kinds of Fascism, the other was Bolshevism, and a third was corporate capitalism. Two are gone." -- Noam Chomsky