Re: Negri's Marxism

["Bryan A. Alexander" <bnalexan@xxxxxxxxx>]

COMMUNISTS LIKE US is a hybrid polemic, a rush of feeling and an
exortation to thought and action.  It is not theoretically-based; it
tries instead to recover communism from its abysmal position in many areas.
        For Negri's theory - which reads like a different author
entirely - go to MARX BEYOND MARX, probably his best.



Bryan Alexander                                 Department of English
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On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, Louis N Proyect wrote:

> On Wed, 14 Feb 1996, David McInerney wrote:
>
> > that is obviously silly.  The best source of Negri's views on class is
> > obviously reading Negri's writings on class, not the simple fact that he
> > was friends with Guattari or anyone else.  I am friends with postmodernists
> > too.  Does that make me a class traitor?
> >
>
> Louis:
>
> "Since the 1960's, new collective subjectivities have been affirmed in
> the dramas of social transformation. We have noted what they owe to
> modifications in the organization of work and to developments in
> socialization; we have tried to establish that the antagonisms which
> they contain are no longer recuperable within the traditional horizon
> of the political. But it remains to be demonstrated that the innovations
> of the '60s should above all be understood within the universe of
> consciousnesses, of desires, and of modes of behaviour."
>
> This is from Guattari and Negri's "Communists Like Us" written in 1985. I
> hesitate to read any more of Negri if this the type of thinking and
> writing he is capable of. "Communists Like Us" is simply a rotten piece
> of thinking and writing from beginning to end.
>
>
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