[PEN-L:33194] Re: RE: Re: RE: imperialism vs. Empire.

["e. ahmet tonak" <eatonak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I do not understand the need for a label.  Having said this, my reading
of their book suggests that, on the one hand, they are, in their own
way, critical of "
post-modernist" theories, on the other, they approvingly use the concept
of "post-modernity" to identify the present phase of the capitalism.

Devine, James wrote:

> > 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

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