New Cities/New Soviets: Someday I'll write a review...

September 16, 2004

Someday I'll write a review...

...of Hardt and Negri's new book Multitudes.

For now, here's an interview with Michael Hardt.

These guys are so soft, it's hard to really tear into them -- reading their work is more like cutting wet dough. But I'll see if I can't fashion a few hardtack biscuits in the process -- something to gnaw on at least...

Posted by Sam at September 16, 2004 07:56 AM

sorry sammo
can't read thiz guy'z blither

i/m too old for this fast aging
thought pattern
design shop's
neat new fart fragrance

Posted by: pinky at September 16, 2004 12:05 PM

yeah yeah --

I hope I can
deal
with these
obscurantists

so no one else
has to...

Posted by: sam at September 16, 2004 08:57 PM

thank you
for shouldering the thankless

Posted by: pinky at September 17, 2004 11:36 AM

forced myself to skim the interview

same old nebulous shit

seems like some crap
one saw when anarchists
morphed into syndicalists

around the last centuries turn

i found his concern
about the return of orthodox marxism
because of post 9/11 events
very revealing

as marxism regroups and replenishes itself
as events
turn once again
more obviously
dialectical
and klassy
as the struggle
gets more obviously
imperial
anti imperial

these horse flies
will multiply
catch one
and look
at it under a magnifier
and you'll
notice the creepy critter
wearing
a t-shirt
with the face
of
marx on it
but unfortunately
it'll have the body of z
and brain of y

or
some
other
inventor of revolutionary formulae
co opting karl's
name recognition
if not
much more
to get attention

not a problem
an opportunity

old bill foster
came to marxism
thru
syndicalism
thanks to the october rev
and perhaps
lenin's keen eye
for the link ups
thru the soviet
between an iww vision
and a rev mraxist vision

certainly
foster could see
this wasn't
some kinda
social dumbocratic pie cardery
like weimar germany

at one stage
importantly so
i think
the imediate
pre and post
october reality
may have temporarily
syndicalized
the parties actions

thank god
it retained
the ability to remorph
for the tasks of building and guiding a red army
thru
war communism
and leading a state apparatus
into
the nep and beyond
------------------------------
so
this multitude shit
sure its play misty for me
and sure its
" organ free "
notion
of a better humankind
some idea like
a flesh not a body

is silly and
not only
headless horseman like horror
but
an even sillier menace
a cavorting blob

butfuck
"people" related conceptions
including democracy need a resucitation
and a challenge from outside
to reformulate from inside

right?

as does the national liberation notion
etc etc etc

the liquidation of these powerful concepts
will of course
be as likely
as the liquidation
of
the nation state
as the target of
revolutionary
power struggles
because
after the latest pardigm shift
the nation state has been
sublated
into the global network

face it pokes

the n states
n stages theory still obtains

states
remain
the bully spots
on the global network
in the class struggle
so
the prole cats will
need some
of
their own
to win a few rounds more
at least as far as eyes care seeing
----------------------------
multitude out of horde
or into horde
movement into
carneval
vs or co joining
the party party

no harm here

joy love abundence
fine knock yourself out

paradigm shifts
be my guest
bye bye
maybe
we'll
see ya again
when you come back around the bend

if you make it that far

by the way
the assembled multitude was a very hacky rock
one hit wonder of the early 70's
---------------------------------------
we move ahead today
events propell us

just as syndicalism was
miles beyond anarchism

this garbage
as paper foolish
as it is
reflects progress

miles beyond the 70's

imagine this for a project

we'll win over
the masses/people

blow job by blow job

now that was a sadsack
revolution

Posted by: pinky at September 17, 2004 10:19 PM

September 16, 2004

Someday I'll write a review...

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