><blockquote>Negri goes on to argue that one form of State control --
>public expenditure, the social wage -- can be used by workers against the
>State. By increasing the quantity of needs and the level of demands, a
>point of qualitative explosion, a "fiscal crisis of the State," can be
>reached. Economic attacks of this sort (for work for social wages) are
>immediately political. . . .
Anyone remember the brouhaha that ensued after Piven and Cloward promoted this approach? ISTR some criticisms of this approach emanating from poor people themselves. Anyone know?
Kelley
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