[PEN-L:33191] RE: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L:33190] Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

> Devine, James wrote:
>
> >joanna bujes quotes Michael Hardt:
> >>  >We can be confident that in the long run their real
> interests will lead
> >>  >global elites to support empire and refuse any project
> of US imperialism.
> >
> >this sentence sounds like an assertion of inevitability. I thought
> >that such assertions were totally "out" in this best of all possible
> >postmodern worlds.... and aren't Hardt and Negri postmodern?
>
> Do "postmodernists" - whoever they are - end their books by talking
> about the irrepressible joy of being communist?

I don't know. Are Hardt & Negri postmodernist (as broadly defined)?

Jim