[lbo-talk] Re: cynicism, opportunism and fear (was lefties, fulfillment)

[Eric Genrich]

I think they took that critcism into account in the writing of "Multitude," which continued to emphasize the importance of immaterial labor but recognized that manual labor is still the preeminent form across the globe. I can't remember the exact phraseology, but they compared the current rise of immaterial labor to that of industrial labor in Marx's time--emergent but not dominant.

Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:Tom Walker wrote:


>Well, no. In fact, the immateriality story doesn't "overlook" that 
>at all. I don't know about Hardt and Negri but Virno talks about the 
>simultaneity of all previous modes of work

I haven't read Virno - I was talking about H&N. As I wrote in my 
review of Empire , 
you'd never know from reading the book that half the world's pop 
lives in the rural Third World, where the principal occupation is 
tilling the soil.

Doug
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