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βmultitude is an open and expansive projectβ
βA specter haunts the world and it is the specter of migration.β
βThe possibility of democracy on a global scale is emerging today for the very first time.β
βAll of those who are "without" - without employment, without residence, without housing - are really excluded only in part.β
β[No] effective blueprint [of a political alternative to Empire] will ever arise from a theoretical articulation such as ours.β
βReality and history, however, are not dialectical, and no idealist rhetorical gymnastics can make them conform to the dialect.β
βThe task of a theory of class is to identify the existing conditions for potential collective struggle and express them as a political proposition.β
βFleeing from a life of constant insecurity and forced mobility is good preparation for dealing with and resisting the typical forms of exploitation of immaterial labor.β
βIn the same way that the figure of the peasant tends to disappear, so too does the figure of the industrial worker, the service industry worker and all other separate categories.β
βWe share bodies with two eyes, ten fingers, ten toes; we share life on this earth; we share capitalist regimes of production and exploitation; we share common dreams of a better future.β
βWhen the general population no longer constitutes the armed forces, when the army is no longer the people in arms, then empires fall. Today all armies are again tending to become mercenary armies.β
βIn fact, the old Marxist distinctions between productive and unproductive labor, as well as that between productive and reproductive labor, which were always dubious, should now be completely thrown out.β
βWe have to construct the figure of a new David, the multitude as champion of asymmetrical combat, immaterial workers who became a new kind of combatants, cosmopolitan bricoleurs of resistance and cooperation.β
βOur claim is that a common political project is possible. This possibility of course will have to be verified and realized in practice. β¦ We are capable of democracy. The challange is to organize it politically.β
βin general, the hegemony of immaterial labor tends to transform the organization of production from the linear relationships of assembly line to the innumerable and indeterminate relationships of distributed networks.β
βPhilosophy is not the owl of Minerva that takes flight after history has been realized in order to celebrate its happy ending; rather, philosophy is subjective proposition, desire, and praxis that are applied to the event.β
βThe so-called communism of capital, that is, its drive toward an ever more extensive socialization of labor, points ambiguously toward the communism of the multitude.
The following page numbers refer to the Penguin publication, 2005.β
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Antonio Negri on Baruch Spinoza 9 quotes
βIt is clear that the origins of the discourse on multitude are to be found in the subversive interpretation of the thinking of Spinoza. I can never tire of stressing the importance of the Spinozan premise in the treatment of this thematic. And one highly Spinozist theme is that of the body, and particularly that of the potent body.β
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Tariq Ali on Antonio Negri
βEmpire 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 existβUSA, China, Germany, etcβbut 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.β
Chrissus on Antonio Negri
βMarxism ... has supplied many aspiring bureaucrats and true dictators with a reservoir of pre-made phrases with which to justify their power. And it has supplied just as many social democrats with a smoke-screen with which to please anyone who is satisfied that capitulation in practice is connected to radicality in style. The important thing was and is to assume the attitude of one who knows what he/she is talking about with scientific precision.Antonio Negriβs texts play the same role today.β
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