Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 09:58:12 -0700
From: Michael Pugliese <debsian-AT-pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: AUT: Hardt-Negri's "Empire": a Marxist critique, part two


   The Radical Party of Italy aligned with the Serbian Radical Party of the
neo-fascist, V. Seselj, an essential coalition partner of the SPS and JUL
throughout the 90's?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=active&q=Seselj+Milosevic+paramilita
ries

Michael Pugliese

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From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
To: <aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 9:13 AM
Subject: Re: AUT: Hardt-Negri's "Empire": a Marxist critique, part two


> At 12:02 PM 6/27/01 EDT, you wrote:
> >where are your 'real people' louis? give us a break. negri as
> >'anti-comunist'? at some point debates ceases to be useful, it becomes
> simply
> >comical.
>
> Look, Negri ran for office on the Radical Party ticket.
>
> Here are the kinds of people who flock to such a party. Any connection
> between them and Marx's attempt to launch a communist international is
> purely coincidental.
>
> =====>
> Financial Times (London), July 6, 1996, Saturday
>
> From the soap-box to the suite: Private View: Emma Bonino tells Christian
> Tyler how she progressed from the Italian Radical party to becoming a big
> fish in the European Commission
>
> By CHRISTIAN TYLER
>
> [Emma] Bonino had been a foreign languages student at Milan's Bocconi
> University in the revolutionary year of 1968 but had taken no interest in
> politics ('I don't even remember it happening'). Now, she said, she became
> infuriated by the hypocrisy of a system which declared abortion a crime
yet
> permitted women in trouble to be so exploited. . .
>
> While in New York to research a thesis on Malcolm X, the Black Power
> leader, she found a job selling shoes in Carrano's elegant boutique on
> Fifth Avenue. It was un-demanding: the shoes came in little Italian
sizes -
> 'So unless we could find some Chinese customers we had nothing to do.'
>
> In 1975 she was asked to become a candidate for the Radicals, a small
> centrist party seeking to promote an individualist society against what
she
> calls the authoritarianism of the Christian Democrats on the right and the
> Communists on the left. She was five times elected to the Chamber of
> Deputies and twice to the European Parliament. . .
>
> She lit a cigarette, the first of many. 'Are you asking me if this is a
job
> or a passion? It comes down to this. I don't know when I developed a real
> passion for politics, but my passion is how individuals can change
society,
> notwithstanding big parties and big bureaucracy.'
>
> In that case, I said, aren't you in the wrong place here?
>
> 'No, it's exactly the right place. It's quite a privilege to be here,' she
> added innocently.
>
> Looking around the office I could not help but agree. But where, I asked,
> was the radical politician now?
>
> Bonino became serious. 'I discovered that to serve your ideals you need
two
> things: institutions, but also pressure from outside. So after 1976 I
began
> to couple the two souls which are deeply rooted in me.
>
> 'I believe in institutions. I think they are needed. I believe in rules. I
> am not anarchica.
>
> 'You also need pressure from outside, non-violent campaigning,' she
> continued. 'Because institutions have an almost irresistible trend to
> become introverted. They even invent a particular language which is
> understandable only on the inside - like in computers, or sailing.'
>
> Do you consider yourself a bureaucrat?
>
> 'Oh, no, I don't consider myself a bureaucrat, though other people may.
> When I was in the European parliament I thought the commission was a
> bureaucratic job. Now I have discovered, being inside, that you really can
> change things. Everything here is non-partisan, but it is politics. I
> discovered this to my astonishment and pleasure. From a personal point of
> view I was not happy to be appointed here.'
>
> Bonino owed her unexpected appointment in 1995 to Silvio Berlusconi, the
> former Italian premier, who needed to woo the Radical party for his
> coalition. Colleagues in Brussels fearful of what the hotheaded Italian
> might get up to have been generally enthusiastic about her, describing her
> as exhilarating but sensible.
>
>
> Louis Proyect
> Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org
>
>
>
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