File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0106, message 243


Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:21:10 -0400
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Re: Hardt/Negri, Lou, Cuba...


>Lou, it's good to be bumping into you again.  indeed, the recent
>crossposting has made me think about re-subbing to pen-l, or to one of
>your or Doug's lists.  (Dare I ask which you'd recommend?)

Doug's list.

>Anyhow, I for one have read Empire, posted a review and started one of the
>periodic discussions on the book that we've seen on this list back in
>July.  See http://lists.village.virginia.edu/cgi-bin/spoons/archive_msg.pl
>?file=aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy.0007&msgnum=121&start=14982&end=15338 or
>just search the list archive for July.  For what it's worth, among other
>things I pointed to Hardt and Negri's Leninism.  Also for what it's worth,
>I probably mostly agree with you about Cuba.  

I saw your review. Can't agree with you about "Hardt and Negri's Leninism",
however.

>(By the way, last night I went to see _Before Night Falls_, which has just
>come out here in Manchester; somewhere there should probably be a
>discussion of that film, but perhaps it doesn't warrant it--it's probably
>more anti-politics than it is anti-Castro, but even as such it reflects a
>definite tendency in Latin American Studies at least, for which Arenas has
>become very popular indeed.)

The film's director is an utter scoundrel.

>Whatever.  You'll probably find that the fact that there isn't the defence
>of the book you're expecting is because plenty of those who've been
>involved in such discussions have their own criticisms of it already.  
>Hence, yes, the discussion now has turned to a critique of your
>alternative suggestions rather than to the book itself.

A critique of my alternative suggestions? Is that what reckless charges
about Cuba threatening the USA with nuclear weapons is supposed to be?
Don't people read Howard Zinn or Noam Chomsky here or is that considered
unfashionable.


Louis Proyect
Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/


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