From: Matteomandarini-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 03:14:52 EDT
Subject: Re: AUT: Negri and Lenin & the 3rd world



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It is worth pointing out that marx's Capital concerned only the western part 
of capitalist development, as he makes clear in his letters to Vera Zasulich. 
This is obviously more of a problem when discussing 'Empire' in the terms he 
does. He is however aware of this failing. in an interview with Fernando 
Navarro (yeah, the guy who did some great interviews with Althusser), 
publsihed in Carta, he admits that many of those who criticised the book for 
underestimating the '3rd world' and the  capitalist perifery are right, but 
that there are two points on which he believes that he and hardt were right:

1/ one concerns the unification of the ruling class across the 1st and 3rd 
worlds;
2/ that there is no homogeneity of 1st and 3rd worlds, but that each has 
pockets of the other, so that centre and periphery cannot be so strictly 
delimited.



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