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`What the global left will look like in 20 years.' --Pat Kane, Books of the Year - Sunday Herald
Slavoj Zizek
'A guru of the post-modern left'
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Strangely vacant,
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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 The most obvious one being that the 'Left' no longer represents the workers, followed by his observation that Marxist conceptions of the role of the worker in the productive cycle are too limiting.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.
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Great Alternative Perspective on many Contemporary & Historical Events,
By Rodrigo - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Goodbye Mr. Socialism (Paperback)
For most english speaking audiences, the types of ideas presented by Negri in this book will be both refreshing and thought-provoking. He addresses not only how one should think of many of the events from the Cold War to present, but also poses many striking critiques of socio-political factions that are often times represented as "Left". For those who find his more theoretical work dense and incomprehensible, the interview format gives Negri the opportunity to flesh out the historical/material conditions and bases for arguments he may make elsewhere in much more philosophical terms.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Of interest to very few,
By Stephen Cann - Published on Amazon.com
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Only a sliver of Professor Negri's non-Italian followers will find this of interest. I'm sure the participants enjoyed the chat, but few others will.
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