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From: "Neil (practical history)" <practicalhistory-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Autonomist Marxist analyses of the crisis?
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:59:14 +0000


Scott's article highlights a problem I have with some 'Autonomist Marxism'. 
Whilst I find the 'autonomist marxist' account of working class subjectivity 
very useful, much of the historical 'autonomist' movement seems to have been 
unable to apply the same analysis to places other than Western Europe and 
the USA (well and maybe Australia and NZ).

Hence we get a whole lot of leninist baggage like calls for support for
'Third World peoples oppressed... even when the said peoples use states or  
organisations with reactionary ideologies as their vehicles for
self-defence'. No mention here of workers autonomy, or of the class 
struggles in 'Third World' countries against states and reactionary 
ideologies - of which there have been plenty, if we take off our 
'Western-centric' glasses for a moment.

Neil

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