RE: Re: AUT: Empire

["michael pugliese" <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/420/empire.html

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>The conservative article is at:
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>http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0202/articles/anderson.html
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>Some of it is hilarious: "the most pernicious books published
in recent memory"
>sounds like a sales pitch.
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>Some of it is just plain lazy:
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>"Empires pages brim with the sciencefictionlike neologisms that
typify much
>contemporary academic writing:agentic, biopower,
>deterritorializationwords that give those who wield them the
sense of gaining
>Shamanlike access to hidden realms."
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>A lot of it, though, is just a silly ad-hominem on Negri, peppered
with such
>missives as "trade has grown by 1,600% since GATT" , not mentioning
the
>inequalities involved.
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>This however, I thought made some sense:
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>"If Hardt and Negris depiction of global capitalism is mendacious,
their hazy
>alternative to itabsolute democracy, open borders, equal compensationis

>apolitical utopian nonsense. How would such schemes actually
work? Hardt and
>Negri never say."
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>The reviewer identified the books beaming optimism as its selling
point, and it
>is true, I think, that we were long overdue for a brash affirmation
of the left.
>But I think that at times this affirmation hasn't been very
well connected to
>present struggles - or at least the connection has not been
stated so clearly
>these conservatives could not misundertand it. Perhaps there
is no such
>formulation, and we should not worry... but maybe we're not
doing ourselves any
>favours. On this point, I suppose that authoritarian theocrats
aren't going to
>swallow the line that the capacity for freedom has to be acquired
by the
>exercise of freedom itself.  But that's no excuse not to think
ahead.
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>Thiago
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>I couldn't get through to the the Coates review.
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>Quoting michael pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
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>>    Two new reviews. http://www.cpgb.org/worker/420/index.html
>> scroll down to Andrew Coates.
>>    From the theo-cons on the Right, http://www.firstthings.com
>> current issue or previous.
>> Michael Pugliese
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