File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0107, message 201


Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 07:03:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Another Brick at the Gap <satellitecrash-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Reactions to "Empire"


ok louis,
can you go be an apologist for capital on some other
list now?
thanks very much,
-Sean

--- Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com> wrote:
> (posted to the Marxism list)
> 
> I read half of "Empire" before quickly and happily
> taking it back to
> the library in exchange for A. Sen's The State,
> Industrialization, Class
> Formation in India. There is nothing new in Hardt
> and Negri that cannot be
> found in people like Roger Burbach or the Int'l
> Forum on Globalisation. The
> power of TNC's is eclipsing the nation-state
> rendering national and regional
> based class-struggle obsolete. All the stuff about
> Spinoza is a red herring,
> which philosophically speaking, is atrocious anyway.
> Interesting they would
> mention Wittgenstein, since arguably, the late Witt
> is a pre-cursor to
> postmodernism with the strong anti-essentialism and
> anti-realism  of the
> Philosophical Investigations and Remarks on the
> Foundations of Matrhematics,
> making Wittgenstein the father of logical positivism
> and postmodernism two
> dialectical opposites. Obviously, HN didn't read the
> passage in Wittgenstein
> that says "what can be said, can be said clearly,
> and what cannot be said
> clearly isn't worth saying." And "whereof we cannnot
> speak therof we must
> remain silent."
> 
> Sam Pawlett
> 
> Louis Proyect
> Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/
> 
> 
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