RE: AUT: excerpt from interview with Negri

["Chris Hurl" <munkah@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

easier said than done.  maybe he elaborates through the interview.  However, I think that the movement is in crisis not solely because of "external" circumstances, but also because of "internal" power struggles (recognizing that the internal/external metaphor is quite limited).

>From my perspective, over here in British Columbia, I think we are witnessing the reassertion of a liberal hegemony over the movement.  For a few years, there was a rising tide of militance, which has been largely swept away through a liberal Popular Frontism.  The "Anybody-But-Bush" fervour has actually swept over to Canada, where a neoliberal government has been building momentum.  Thus, in British Columbia we are witnessing a sort of "Anybody-But-Campbell" (our provincial premier) movement, which pushes back towards electoralism and Third Way governments to solve our problems.

This is also reflected in an attempt to organize a Northwest Social Forum in Seattle, featuring prominant liberal anti-globalizers, which fell apart because many groups didn't not feel included in the organizing; just like the ESF, it seems.

Negri's analysis here seems superficial.  Lets end the war and lets build continental organizations and lets build a New Deal.  This argument seems hopelessly liberal, failing to acknowledge power struggles within the movement and the cooptation of struggle by those who have consolidated power through trade unions and NGOs, and who very often are privileged enough to fly to far-off places and build coalitions with other bureaucratic mandarins from around the world.

--chris




>From: Nate Holdren <nateholdren@xxxxxxxxx>

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>To: aut-op-sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

>Subject: AUT: excerpt from interview with Negri

>Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:16:27 -0500

>

>Spanish version at http://biopolitica.blogdrive.com/

>

>From Clarín, Buenos Aires 8-28-2004

>HECTOR PAVON

>

>(...)

>

>How will the crisis of the global movement of resistance resolve?

>

>Look, I think the movement is very much in crisis and that the

>relaunch of the global movement can only be produced through those

>large continental movements that are organizing themselves: Latin

>America, Europe, India, China, the US. The big problem is to totally

>finish with war. Second, to construct global organizations that break

>the division between North-South or East-West. This is the problem we

>should work on, but I think that we are already very advanced. There

>should be produced a definitive compromise and the launch of a global

>New Deal. We advance very much and the situation is far from bad. To

>say it in a phrase of Mao Tse Tung: "There is great disorder under

>heaven, the situation is excellent."

>

>*

>

>(...)

>

>- -¿Cómo se resolverá, en el futuro, la crisis del movimiento de

>resistencia global?

>

>- -Mire, creo que el movimiento está muy en crisis y que el

>relanzamiento del movimiento global sólo puede producirse a través de

>estos grandes movimientos continentales que están organizándose:

>América latina, Europa, India, China, EE.UU.. El gran problema es

>terminar con la guerra totalmente. Segundo, lograr construir

>organizaciones mundiales que rompan la división entre Norte-Sur o el

>Este-Oeste. Ese es el gran problema en torno del cual debemos

>trabajar, pero creo que ya estamos muy avanzados. Debería producirse

>un compromiso definitivo y el lanzamiento de un New Deal global.

>Avanzamos mucho y la situación dista de ser mala. Para decirlo con una

>frase de Mao Tse Tung: "Es grande el desorden bajo el cielo, la

>situación es excelente".

>

>

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