From: ".: s0metim3s :." <s0metim3s-AT-optusnet.com.au>
Subject: AUT: RE: anyone seen this Hardt/Negri article?
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 15:52:15 +1000



: 'Why we need a multilateral Magna Carta'
:
:
http://www.globalagendamagazine.com/2004/antonione
gri.asp


How peculiar.  Or maybe not.  It seems to coincide
with another (can't recall the title) article by
Hardt about the progressive aspects of euro
hegemony, or somesuch.

There's a fudging going on which is, well,
bizzare. Trying to position themselves as advisers
(cheerleaders?) to an emergent, more 'progressive'
Empire (apparently thwarted by the reactionary
residues of imperialism)?  Does the critique of
any emergent Empire take a back seat to a yearning
for the real-world verification of the thesis of
_Empire_ (the book) so that the critique might
ascend to its rightful central place in turn?

"The failure of neoliberalism, in other words,
makes inevitable the task of creating a new
productive system with the means to realize better
the productive potential present in the world
today."

Whose task is it, precisely, to aim for the better
realisation of the productive potential of the
world (ie., the more efficient exploitation of
everyone who's currently in danger of being
'excluded' from such misfortune)?

'Exclusion' as a misfortune?  Soon they'll be
calling for full employment...

Angela
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