Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 22:22:46 +0100
From: Jan Straathof <janstr-AT-chan.nl>
Subject: Martin Heidegger the intellectual mentor of the left


justice, at last ......  ;-)

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fwd: <nettime> Interview with Michael Hardt in Porto Alegro

[snip]

- - Do you think that after September 11 the left has come to be victim of
revenge against anti-Americanism?

Soon after that event, the rightwing press in the USA begun to say that the
antiglobalization movements were as bad as terrorism. Four articles in
rightwing weekly magazines said that I, Antonio Negri and our book Empire
were responsible for September 11.

- - What were the arguments?

First there was the National Review, then the New Republic, New Criterium
and the Weekly Standard. This last one, by the way, does not mention only
us, but also says that Martin Heidegger is the intellectual mentor of the
left (in the articles: The Imperial Left: Why American academics love Hardt
and Negri's "Empire" and Postmodern Jihad; What Osama bin Laden learned
from the left). Clearly Heidegger was never a left-wing intellectual. All
this was the product of a weak understanding of what we wrote and is
ideological in the worst sense. The ideological right saw an opportunity to
use all that patriotism to attack its enemies. But I think that we have
already
overcome this problem.


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