Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 07:57:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sean Fenley <satellitecrash-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: Re: Hardt-Negri's Empire: a critique, part one



--- Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com> wrote:
> >what other option is there?
> 
> Cuba.

totalitarianism? no thanks...
> 
> >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.

gulf war, kosovo, if columbia were to escalate into
another vietnam i think u.s. would look for outside
aid, and i think the expense of the war and
similarities to vietnam would elicit mass
demonstrations domestically... furthermore the action
would likely be condemned by much of Europe...
> 
> >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.

never saw a ruling class that was overthrown by
nationalism... if you have an example please offer
one...
against capitalism in all its manifestations,
-Sean


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