Re: Hardt & Negri on Genoa

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 16:45:10 -0400 (EDT), Boris Stremlin wrote:
>If N&H are apologists for capitalism and their talk about the
>multitude is
>just word-mongering, in what way does your fundamental goal of
>propagating
>your doctrine to a younger generation (rather than building
>coalitions to
>fight for change, e.g.) better fit the definition of revolutionary
>socialism?  In what way is it more efficacious, grounded?

I am not looking for a new "theory". I am simply trying to educate 
young activists and scholars in how to apply Marxism. My mailing list 
has over 350 subscribers, mostly activists on the front lines. The 
website associated with the list gets over 30,000 hits a month. My 
intention is to build up this space as a premier location for 
nondogmatic and nonsectarian Marxism on the Internet. Generally I 
avoid quarrelling with postmodernist fakes like Zizek, Hardt and 
Negri but the amount of hype associated with "Empire" deserved a 
response. Mostly what I write about deals with very specific issues 
in the class struggle such as airline deregulation, guerrilla war in 
Colombia, organizational problems of the Marxist movement, etc. I 
leave the task of improving on Marxist theory to others more 
presumptuous than myself.

-- 
Louis Proyect, lnp3@panix.com on 07/23/2001

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