From: "Nate Holdren" <nateholdren-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: new thread: nomads
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 16:03:28 -0500


Hi Aileen,
Here's a link to an article in Wildcat (the German one) that's somewhat 
related to your point. It's part of a discussion between Wildcat and John 
Holloway, the first part of which is a discussion of the history of Wildcat 
and attempts to politicize movements of temp and unemployed workers.

www.wildcat-www.de/en/zirkular/39/z39e_hol.htm

Nate



>From: Aileen <aocarrol-AT-tcd.ie>
>Reply-To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: aut-op-sy-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: AUT: new thread: nomads
>Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:09:51 +0000
>
>Hi
>
>The comments about credit and work discipline are interesting. I've been
>re-looking at Empire and
>I wonder what people think of the following assertion  ..
>
>'Desertion and exodus are a powerful form of class struggle within and
>against imperial post-modernity. This mobility, however, still constitutes
>a spontaneous level of struggle, and, as we noted earlier, it most often
>leans today to a new rootless condition of poverty and misery (p213)'.
>
>I can see how opting out is a form of resistance and of class struggle, but
>I can't see how it is a
>'powerful' form of class struggle. Isn't it a form of flight? Above,
>Negri&Hardt themselves say it often
>leads to nowhere. So where is the power?  I can see how people are
>motivated to
>to become self-employed in-order to escape work discipline or to have more
>control over
>their work process. And I can see that many information workers move jobs
>frequently in
>the hope that the next job will be more interesting or so well paid they
>can escape work
>altogether, but these aren't these all strategies that act on a purely
>individual level, mitigate against collective
>action and fail to challenge capitalist production. Later on he cites the
>IWW and the autonomists as
>positive examples of a political activity and a politics that was based on
>mobility.  Mobility, escape,
>nomadism, on its own isn't a political activity and doesn't have a 
>politics.
>
>Aileen
>




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