Re: Re: Re: Re: Hardt:"Spinoza was a communist thinker long before Marx"

[Louis Proyect]

>Not necessarily. "The truly militant" is probably one of those
>categories that needs to be responded to with nominalist scepticism. For
>example, the "White Panthers" on the lam from the police who got caught
>driving around the Upper Peninsula in a van with open cans of beer or
>something like that. The only credit they should get is for providing
>raw material for jokes.
>
>Carrol

This is unfair. Out of the White Panther movement we get the MC5 and a
kick-ass guitarist named Wayne Kramer. Out of Negri's prison stint we get
his bid for electoral office on the middle-class Radical Party and an awful
book promoting the idea that computer networks in Ghana is what Marx wrote
the Communist Manifesto for.

Louis Proyect
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