Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 12:14:13 -0400
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Hardt-Negri's Empire: a critique, part one


>what other option is there?

Cuba.

>it's common knowledge that the U.S. cannot act as
>global hegemon any longer by itself, it needs to be in
>agreement with (and sometimes needs financial aid
>from) many other advanced capitalist states before it
>can act militarily or in some cases even
>diplomatically...

Wrong.

>the vanguard can no longer be useful for the plurality
>of movements that are striving to realize their goals
>against capital... i havn't seen much work on
>specifically how to unify the multitude by thinkers on
>the libertarian left, but the vanguard party is an
>anachronistic method of organization that will
>hopefully become less and less popular as the
>anti-capitalist globalization movement and all the
>current social movements progress...

I don't think a vanguard party is an appropriate tool for the "libertarian
left". It is for those, however, who are seeking to overthrow the
capitalist class, a task that Negri and Hardt have disavowed.


Louis Proyect
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