Lou, what you describe about Negri is consistent with his earlier views.
Ditto for Harry Cleaver. The strength of Roger Burbach's earlier work was
the detail that he brought into the conditions of various Latin American
situations.
So, I don't see as much of a break in that respect.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 02:05:14PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
> >I'm waiting for someone to write _something_ about it that at least
> >moves it into Moore's middle category. It would help, at least, if Doug
> >would express some of the fresh thoughts it inspired in him. Until
> >someone convinces me its worth attacking I can't get up much interest in
> >Lou's promised attacks.
> >
> >Carrol
>
> I'll tell you briefly what I will explain at greater length in part one
> this weekend. Hardt and Negri are part of a constellation of thinkers that
> I would describe as post-Marxist. This includes Harry Cleaver and Roger
> Burbach among others. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of
> the Zapatista movement, a significant body of young activists have gathered
> in "encuentros" where strategies geared to very local issues are
> formulated. You get an enormous amount of interest in squats and soup
> kitchens, for example. Side-by-side you get a resurgence of anarchism,
> another topic that I plan to investigate as soon as I can free up some time.
>
> In general, post-Marxism has an enormous appeal to graduate students who
> feel rebellious but who are put off by what they perceive as an
> old-fashioned sort of absolutism in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, where
> there is no room for playfulness, complexity, irony, bleh-bleh. For
> example, I had a friend at Barnard who practically refused on principle to
> read Marx, but who had read lots of Deleuze-Guattari, Lacan, Laclau-Mouffe
> and Judith Butler.
>
> While it is good that young people are reading Deleuze-Guattari rather than
> Simon Schama or Milton Friedman, I am trying to move as many of them
> towards Marxism as I can. This involves intervening (in the sense of
> interfering) on email lists, etc. where I don't have to put up with print
> editors who worry about whether what I write might offend somebody.
>
> As a way of illustrating this, here's some mail I received a couple of
> hours ago:
>
> Lou,
>
> The next issue of xxx will have a full-length article by me about a recent
> scandal involving associates of James P. Hoffa and the Las Vegas convention
> industry.
>
> This will be my first signed full-length piece in a national publication
> (I've written some anonymous stuff for TDU's Convoy Dispatch).
>
> Since your e-mail list was pivotal in turning me from Chomskyite anarchism
> to revolutionary socialism (gawd, I hope that doesn't sound maudlin), I'd
> feel honored if you'd allow me to send you a few copies on the house.
>
> Louis Proyect
> Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
>
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