Re: AUT: Negri and Charleton Heston?

[mj <mjlistservs@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Utterly. The problem is to think "should" as opposed
> to "already is"... La
> comunidad is armed to the teeth. What does Negri
> want, three guns per adult
> American, rather than two? Or a better distribution
> of guns in favour of
> educated people who will know which way to shoot?

I'm sorry, that's ridiculous, stop watching TV. 70 to
75 million Americans own guns out of a population of
300 million. That's a quarter. And they're
overwhelmingly White. In fact, the existing "gun
control" laws in the country can be traced back
directly to the post-civil-war Slave Codes which
disarmed the freemen, and are still plainly selective
in their enactment and enforcement.

http://www.lizmichael.com/racistgc.htm

But I'm assuming you mean the White working class when
you talk about the American working class? Gun
ownership cuts across categories of relationship to
the means of production, but is sharply stratified
racially and regionally.

I do think Negri's in la-la land though.

MJ

>
> I think this is further evidence of what I said
> earlier, that Negri (and
> Hardt) have very little idea of the actuality of the
> American working class,
> or perhaps they just ignore it. I think it is the
> later. It's probably not
> because of some stupidity on their part; it's just
> that they have abandoned
> the actual concept of economic class in favour of an
> essentially culturalist
> (and epistemically very conservative) concept of
> communal agency based on
> shared values. When they speak of multitudes, they
> repeat the venerable
> marxist trick of speaking of the true,
> self-realised, conscious working
> class, the real workers who are the agents of
> history. The rest - the
> millions of gun-totting capitalist crusaders -
> they're not really the
> working class. It's almost as if they haven't
> figured out anything nice to
> say, so they figure they'll say nothing. Polite, but
> useless analysis.
>
> Thiago



		
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