Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 07:45:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Another Brick at the Gap <satellitecrash-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Reactions to "Empire"



'nose-picking imbeciles' that's very creative, you
should keep using that one were intellectually vacuous
does not apply...

it's funny how you selectively chose to respond to
'serious comments' when the 'serious comments' are
outside of areas with which you engage you instead
write some juvenile response... i mainly responded due
to the absurdity of comparisons of h and n to burbach
and int. forum on globalizion (you're now wasting our
time by rehashing the exact same arguments instead of
the ever so slight variations you would make on the
same arguments earlier) i havn't read burbach but
doubt (i know ifg doesn't agree with this position) he
agrees with the fundamental autonomist postion that
hardt and negri accept which is that "struggles
precede and prefigure capitalist development and
restructuring" therefore any post-marxist or neo
marxist (or even social democratic politics) that does
not take this position is from the beginning far off
from the approach negri and hardt are taking... you
basically have grasped few of the fundamentals of
hardt and negri's positions (this would include you
actually being familiar with the work of theorists i
mentioned awhile ago: foucault, deleuze and guattari,
italian new left, negri's libertarian readings of
marx, etc...) any critique of empire that does not
engage with biopolitical production can basically be
laughed off, especially when you argued at the same
time there wasn't enough economic data in the book...

your whole critique has been about justifying your
positions by glossing over empire as carelessly as you
possibly could, but at the same time at least reading
enough of it so your right wing communist pals could
nod their heads in agreement with you... i'm
interested in critical thinking not following party
lines...
> 
> I will unsub when it is obvious that there are no
> more serious comments on
> what I have written, such as the kind that Jon
> Beasley-Murray has been
> posting. Believe me, I don't want to spend any more
> time around
> nose-picking imbeciles like you than I have to.
> 
unsub away so you can begin to build the party! (that
is of course the greens or democrats since the
'workers party' never seems to materialize),
good by for good (trust me this time i mean it),
-Sean


===="Read, read, read. Read till your eyes swim; get yourselves right, hold meetings, keep on holding them. To aim high and far is not the problem, for that is not what distinguishes those who accomplish. It is the planning, the origanisation, the attention to detail, the tenacity that count."
     -C.L.R. James-

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