Re: Radical Philosophy conference timetable

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 14 Oct 2001 11:52:21 -0400, MatthewCaygill@xxxxxxx wrote:
>Don't you think that the politics of the
>coalition put together by US and UK imperialisms
>looks remarkably like the 'Empire' of Negri and
>Hardt - and the various strands of opposition
>and resistance, including that of the massive
>and marvelous demonstration in London yesterday
>(I went with about 80 people from Leeds)
>provides a picture of the 'multitude'!

No, not at all. The "Empire" of Hardt-Negri has no center, but the
war-making machine being assembled right now has a center in
Washington, DC/New York City, the political and financial capitals of
US imperialism. The terrorists did not choose to attack some
amorphous global target, but the two targets of the world's number
one cop-crook.

As far as the "multitude" in London is concerned, whoever organized
it, we can be sure it was not the NGO's who chickened out of
protesting in Washington, DC at the end of December nor the white
coveralls/black bloc type activists who seem totally disoriented by
recent events, like the proverbial deer caught in the headlights of a
car. I strongly suspect that the main organizers are moldy old fig
Marxists, like the ones who are represented here.


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Louis Proyect, lnp3@xxxxxxxxx on 10/14/2001

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