Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:03:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thomas Seay <entheogens-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: AUT: ] Hardt clarifies Magna Carta Question


I haven't seen that Doug has posted this to the list
yet (excuse me if he has and this is a double
posting), but here is our answer to our question about
the "Magna
Carta".

-Thomas
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com> wrote:
> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 09:44:11 -0400
> To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk-AT-lbo-talk.org>
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Hardt clarifies
 
> [I asked Michael Hardt to clarify the "new Magna
> Carta" piece he & 
> Negri wrote for the World Economic Forum's magazine 
>
<http://www.globalagendamagazine.com/2004/antonionegri.asp>
> - 
> specifically, whether it's "descriptive or
> prescriptive." Here's his 
> response.]
> 
> It is prescriptive.  (They asked us to write
> something and we tried 
> to make a suggestion they could understand.)  But
> the prescription is 
> not only for the WEF participants (EU included) to
> rethink and 
> question their alliances with W.  The two specific
> suggestions at the 
> end of the piece are to look for guidance to the
> aristocracies of the 
> South, such as Lula and the group of 22, and to look
> to the movements 
> for guidance.  Sticking with your EU example, that
> is to say that a 
> EU oriented toward the movements is better than an
> EU oriented 
> towards the US and the capitalist corporations.
> 
> Anyway not a very revolutionary message, but a
> simple one that we 
> thought they could understand and one that could aid
> the movements 
> and the other anti-capitalist struggles.  Something
> like a 
> Machiavellian moment, advising the powerful that
> their only 
> alternative is really to do what makes us much more
> powerful.
> 
> Hope that makes sense.  Seems rather simple to me.
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