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Re: Empire after 9/11? by Louis Proyect 07 July 2002 21:21 UTC |
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Khaldoun Samman wrote: > Greetings, > > Has Hardt/Negri followed up on their argument of Empire to include the > US response to 9/11? If so, where can I get it? > Hardt statement on 9/11: http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/09/26/1250203 Review of Hardt-Negri in light of 9/11: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n19/bull2319.htm > Questions I am trying to come to terms with: > > Does the response of the US in anyway undermine their argument of > Empire or does it support it? > Undermine it. The USA has acted unilaterally in a way that the British Empire would have never dreamed of. Generally speaking, both Hardt-Negri and certain world systems theorists who shall go unnamed never understood the USSR dialectically. With the collapse of the USSR, the USA has a free rein. > Is the US response more in tune with the continual destruction of > modernity (ie modern > soveriegnty/imperialism/dialects/difference/public vs private spaces, > in short Empire) or is it boomeranging back to its pre-postcolonial > modernity where imperialism in its old guise has reappeared? > There are aspects of the current struggle that evoke the pre-socialist struggle against colonialism with all its atavistic and obscurantist aspects. See my article on the Mahdist revolt for more on this: http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/fascism_and_war/mahdism.htm -- Louis Proyect www.marxmail.org
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