Craig Brozefsky on Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:34:58 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Hardt & Negri "Counseling the aristocrats" |
Louis Proyect asked me to forward this: Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:22:51 -0400 From: Louis Proyect <lnp3@panix.com> > There are much more interesting criticisms of the Hardt & Negri > piece than the rantings of a trotskyite whose consistent > preoccupation (and accusation against others) is that others are > famous when he is not. Famous? I prefer infamy. > To be sure, Hardt & Negri have done no one, let alone themselves a > favour in their recent article; but surely there are better > criticisms of it to read than the dross churned out by Proyect. > Some of those are here: > http://lists.village.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/spoons/a > rchive1.pl?list=aut-op-sy.archive ... sans the collapse of any > recent european philosophy into some unfied conspiracy against the > correct path outlined by Lenin, and sans any yearnings for storming > the winter palace. > > Angela Instead of bashing Lenin, our autonomist friends would be better advised to understand the logic that would lead H&N to counsel the aristocrats. On the aut-op-sy mailing list, they call the latest analysis "mad" as if H&N woke up one morning and decided for some ungodly reason to back the Empire against imperialism (as if this were a coherent position to begin with.) The autonomist comrades would be better off rereading "Empire" and trying to understand why H&N placed any credibility in Marx's troubled Tribune articles on India, a surefire indication that faith was being placed in capitalist progress as I pointed out to them. -- Sincerely, Craig Brozefsky <craig@red-bean.com> Kontact -- http://www.red-bean.com/kontact/wiki.cgi # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net