{"id":262,"date":"2006-07-03T06:14:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T20:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2006-07-04T16:45:35","modified_gmt":"2006-07-04T06:45:35","slug":"notes-on-negri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"notes on negri"},"content":{"rendered":"
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from guerra sociale<\/strong><\/a> [social war] 2002\/3 :<\/p>\n

WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Why take the trouble to criticize the theses<\/a> of Empire<\/a><\/em>, when reality has so generously seen to it? Certainly not because it is a successful book, talked about in universities and on television. The discussions of opinion don\u2019t interest us. We criticize the ideas of Negri (and Hardt) because they are a practical force, since they represent the most lucid version of the program of the left-wing of capital<\/a> today and influence a movement \u2013 the \u201cdisobbedienti\u201d<\/a> \u2013 capable of supporting such a program. \u201cDisobedient\u201d politics, in fact, represents an excellent terrain of experimentation for the democracy to come. Let\u2019s see in outline why…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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A Biographical Note on Antonio Negri<\/strong><\/p>\n

(provided by the authors of Barbari<\/em> for those unfamiliar with him)<\/p>\n

Antonio Negri was born on August 1, 1933 in Padua, Italy, the cultural capital of the traditionally bigoted, petty bourgeois Veneto region. A fervent believer, the young Toni Negri discovered militance when he became a part of the religious youth organization \u201cCatholic Action\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The \u201850\u2019s in Italy were the years of the re-launching of the country\u2019s economy, a prodigious capitalistic phenomenon that remained forever in the eyes and the heart of Negri, who, after having replaced God with Marx, began to frequent the environments of the New Left. In the \u201860\u2019s, Toni Negri actively participated in the elaboration of workerism<\/a>, as editor of Quaderni rossi<\/em> (\u201cRed study books\u201d) first and later of Classe operaia<\/em> (\u201cWorking Class\u201d).<\/p>\n

What is workerism? It is the ideology according to which the factory is the center of class struggle and the workers are the only builders of revolution, because, with their struggle, they push capital to develop in the liberatory direction. The workerists take aim at parties and unions, but these latter are not so much criticized as rebuked for not carrying out what is supposed to be their duty effectively. As for all the forms of struggle that are outside of the factory environment, they are either condemned or snubbed.<\/p>\n

No need to say that none of the various intellectuals who gave life to workerism, usually escapees from the Socialist and Communist Party, have ever worked a single day in a factory. Negri, for example, preferred by a long shot to teach \u201cDoctrine of the State\u201d at the university of Padua and leave the dubious pleasure of the assembly line to the proletarians.<\/p>\n

The workerist strategy, beyond a phraseology that is at times extremist, consisted in the desire to \u201cplace back in motion a positive mechanism of capitalistic development\u201d within which \u201cto put into play the demands of a heavier workers\u2019 power\u201d through \u201cthe revolutionary use of reformism\u201d…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See also<\/em> : Uh-Oh… Here Come the Barbarians!<\/a> \/\/ Third gender<\/a><\/p>\n

::::::<\/strong><\/p>\n

Antifascist Prisoner Requires Support<\/em><\/p>\n

According to Brighton ABC<\/a>, Lasandra Burwell<\/em> has been jailed for 5 years for throwing rocks at the police during last year’s clash between anti-fascists, cops and neo-Nazis in Toledo, Ohio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Letters of support and reading matter should be sent to:<\/p>\n

Lasandra Burwell
\nW063658
\nOhio Reformatory for Women
\n1479 Collins Ave
\nMarysville
\nOH 43040
\nUSA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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