Date: Tue, 20 May 97 12:29:02 +0200
From: Fiocco-AT-ccuws4.unical.it (Fiocco Laura)
Subject: Re: Economics of Communist Society


Gra wrote

>Dear Folks
>
>Just a quick request [actually its turned out to be several]
>
>Thirdly
>
>I do not have the piece by Negri on 'absence of memory' or whatever and my
>mate Brian [who is well into Negri] does not seem able to explain this
>adequately. So where is this in his work and is it in English ?


I have a reference for the 'absence of memory': On 1982 at the university
of Calabria we organised a meeting with Kapitalistate. Negri sent a paper
from Rebibbia (the prison) which, he wrote, was the output of a collective
discussion with cammerades in prison. It has been published into a book
(made of some of the papers of the meeting) I edited (this is why I
remember).
I do not remember if he used this notion  before (but surely after,
somewhere) and I do not know if he published the same paper somewhere else.

About the meening.

The context in which he putted it:
He is talking about State, politics, and the revolutionary subject
(soggetto: subjectivity).
Just before he was saing that the so called socialists societies (the east
area) are "not developed (arretrate) capitalists societies" and that the
old model of revolution can't work anymore.

Now I try to translate the piece into question (but mind that I'am not sure
of the result: I just put it as nearer as possible to the italian)

Negri wrote:

"The subjests of revolutionary struggles (lotte) have radicaly changed: the
contents of the liberation's struggles --- (mine: the ones already given)
---had reabsorbed and transformend the contents of emancipation's
struggles. Liberation is liberation from labour not emancipation of labour.
=46rom this point of view the new generations engaged into the revolutionary
process are *memory free* (in english). But this doesn't mean that the
revolutionary process is without principles - on the contrary (anzi), it
transform itself into (dentro) the radical refusal of the existing social
organisation, into the radical refusal of this and inside (dentro) the
experience of comunity struggles (lotte di comunit=E0) and the social
struggle (lotta sociale), with a radicalism rearly percieved (con un
radicalismo raramente percepito). Principles era born into the development
of the struggle, and omong them we have to identify expecially the project
of changing (incidere sulla) the quality of life, ie that of fighting
against to and destroy every efford of subdueing (subjogating =
assoggettare) life to death."

I hope it can help
ciao laura










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