Negri's responsibilities

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> Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:36:34 -0300
> From: "Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Negri's responsibilities
>
> My comments to Lou re: Toni Negri were somehow shorthand. I don't
> know if he did the Aldo Moro job himself.

There are murderous Spinozists; they're called barbecue chefs.

> But I want to publicly add what follows.
>
> Nor would I care less. He, and many like him, were during the late
> 60s the ideologues of the movement towards cell-group terrorism which
> helped to absorb the mobilizations of the European youth after 1968
> and to restore full bourgeois control of the imperialist countries.

Yeah, right, like Allende was responsible for the Sendero Luminoso
(The Autonomists and the Red Brigades effectively lived in different
countries, the BR being an creme-de-la-creme deal like the Weathermen, and
Autonomism had lost a lot of steam by the time the Red Brigades really got
going).

> He is _politically_ responsible for what happened, murder of Moro
> included. I have a good right not to have any trade with such people
> as those who lead a whole generation to senseless martyrdom and help
> the bourgeoisie to deviate the rage of the masses towards individual
> actions. My own country and revolutionary movement has paid too high
> a price for the mumblings of these irresponsible charlatans. It is
> not a matter of legal debate. It is a matter of political
> responsibilities.

Please explain this concept of "political responsibility" extending beyond
one's legal responsibilities as a person and falling short of one's
responsibilities as a member of an anti-Maoist political faction.

> During the late 60s, early 70s, he was an ultra-left provocateur.
> Now, he performs his neo-Bernsteinian act of delusion.  In the end,
> it is the same thing. Negri has _always_ been the left wing of --
> Berlusconi.

This is true; even if he talks up center-left candidates (as he's done with
American Democrats, who are no prize pigs) he's not really an Olive Tree
guy, he takes Berlusconi's agenda and gives it a radical conformance.
Thusly his position on Iraq makes perfect sense to me; it's one I've
personally subscribed to.


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