The format of the book is based on an extended interview which might be a put-off but surprisingly it reads quire well. Negri's thinking occupies a space of peculiar paradox.His own history, he was imprisoned for Red Brigade association, including 'exile in France implies challenge. An apologia for the Soviet Union blended a eulogy to information and communications technology manifested in the Internet. Along the way Negri makes some pertinent points. The most obvious one being that the 'Left' no longer represents the workers, followed by his observation that Marxist conceptions of the role of the worker in the productive cycle are too limiting. The problem with the work, and here the interviewer is quite acute, is that all the high-minded theorizing and criticism never resolves into a plan of economic or political action. It was as if all political activity of a type traditionally seen as 'left' was now replaceable by Tweets, and social networks. Negri's naivete in failing to situate the Internet as a product par excellence of late capitalism is astonishing - akin to the admiration Stalinists had for Ford motor cars precisely because they could access them. As a political charter or sketch of a future the book is strangely vacant. Rather than appeal directly to statist predilections which seem often to dominate the planning of Left parties it rehashes vague ideas about the 'multitude', an amorphous global citizenry. In this respect, though unmentioned, Negri is intoning the dead sentiments of his hero, Trotsky.