AUT: What Negri loses

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> From: "Chris Hurl"
> What Negri loses, I think, is a lot of the valuable historically-specific insight coming from folks like Bologna, Alquati, and Montaldi, which provide a very detailed historical analysis of how workers struggles are developing in the workplace and how these struggles are constantly cross-cut and contained by trade union bureaucracy and Communist Party (PCI) leadership.

And not only that:

1. The history of both the 'Italian' and the 'German/Dutch' left communist traditions of 'bordigism' and 'council communism', who discovered decades or centuries ago that the 'old workers movement' didn't meet the real problems and needs of 'the working class'.

2. The more specific history of post II. WW radical 'left' currents of not only the Italian scene, but also of other radical groupings around the world.

When it really comes to the essentials Negri is not only poor theoretically but also historically.

And this also explains the weekness of his thoughts. You cannot make a 'theory' without 'history' !

Jens

www.kurasje.org








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