Tariq Ali interview in Brazil

["Mohammad J Alam" <alam.m@xxxxxxx>]

On Hardt and Negri's Empire:

"EMPIRE is a very stimulating account of globalisation,
but it is hopelessly wrong on two central issues. The
state has not withered away. Strong states still exist
....but the difference with the past is that there is
now only one Empire and this is not the nebulous entity
imagined by Cultural Studies but a real living organism
and it has a name; the United States of America."

FULL: http://www.counterpunch.org/tariq0708.html

By the way, does anyone know who in the hell was it that
described this 400-page literary dissertation as the
modern equivalent of the Communist Manifesto? That dude
was on some serious stuff.


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