[lbo-talk] Hardt/Negri's Commonwealth as reviewed in WSJ

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Oct 9 12:16:22 PDT 2009


Alan Rudy wrote:
>
> > H&N were primarily arguing that it really is a post-Fordist (I can't stand
> that term) world we live in? The economy's actually shifted to emphasizing
> language and communication? That interpretation makes it worse than the one
> I couldn't take.
> Cranky still,
> -A

I read it twice (which I thought two too many) in part because I couldn't believe in the first reading that they were actually saying something so fatuous. But they were!

It's just another variation on the Religion of Progress.

And of course Italian Communism ended up as Eurocommunism then as ... nothing at all.

Carrol



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