Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 13:04:28 +1000
From: shamass <aphayes-AT-cyberone.com.au>
Subject: Re: AUT: Hardt interview


Sebastian Budgen wrote:

> > Since Callinicos is going to be there as well, I wonder if anyone has
> > yet read his article linking Negri to the nefarious Black Bloc - I
> > haven't been able to find it yet, but I await the experience with great
> > relish . . .
> He doesn't actually say that. It's what appeared in the (silly) advert. It
> is very critical though.

this isn't exactly true sebastian (and as one of the people callinicos sites
as providing material help i thought you'd know better!).

in his article 'Toni Negri In Perspective' in ISJ #92 callinicos describes
negri as the "foremost philosopher of Italian autonomism" & autonomism as "a
diverse political formation" continuing to say that "The most notorious
version [of autonomism] is represented by the anarchist Black Block, whose
pursuit of violent confrontation with the state played into the police's hands
at Genoa." callinicos is at pains throughout the article to associate negri's
poolitics with "violence." though resiling from a direct association between
negri & the red brigades, he most certainly asssociates the two by citing
negri celebration of proletarian violence before continuing with "Meanwhile
others where taking this cult of violence to its logical conclusion. The Red
Brigades..." likewise dodging a *direct* association between negri & the black
blocks, its hard to come away from the article with this association.

anthony

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