Re: AUT: Negri and Charleton Heston?

[Lowe Laclau <lowe.laclau@xxxxxxxxx>]

> >Both Negri and the movement link the demand for a "social wage"
>
> I don't see how that could be provided by anything but a state. Do
> aut's have a position on that?
>
> Doug

Theoretically it doesn't require a state... as the state acts as a
mediator, the means of institutionalizing the varieties of waged
labor. As a practical matter, it is still the only viable immediate
way of doing it on a mass scale.

Negri's position as I've understood it is not to let this lie simply
in terms of nation-state mediation. National division is of absolutely
no help to the global working classes... Thats why he always couples
this issue with the global citizenship thing.

I was looking through a book recently by an American author (I assume)
Richard Duncan "The Dollar Crisis". He also includes a brief chapter
on the "guaranteed wage" as one of the few viable alternatives to
resolving the impending economic crisis the world will face if the
global demand issue is not resolved. So it seems to me this campaign
for this wage is by now being taken seriously by all different types
of scholars.

Lowe


     --- from list aut-op-sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---