Counter-Currents
The Populist Moment, Chapter 11, Part 1
“Multitudes” Against the People
On the Theses of Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri
Alain de Benoist
Antonio Negri (left) & Michael Hardt
5,027 words
Introduction here, Chapter 10 Part 2 here, Chapter 11 Part 2 here
Translated by F. Roger Devlin
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri published a book intitled Empire (E.) in the United States in April 2000, followed four years later by another essay, Multitude (M.).
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“What is peculiar to Hardt and Negri is drawing the much more debatable conclusion that an internal struggle cannot take the form of frontal opposition. This is why they condemn any form that radically contests globalism, whether it occurs in the name of localism, ecologism, the old class struggle, popular cultures, third-worldism, communitarian thought, classical Marxism, etc.”
From Marx himself, through Lenin, the Frankfurt School, and now Negri, the function of big-brained “Marxist” thought has been to condemn any positive resistance or action as futile if not outright “counter-revolutionary.” The ignorant peasants may think that more money or better healthcare might make their lives better, but the wise “thinker” has discerned the Laws of History, which insure that the Revolution is inevitable, but by the same token, cannot be “forced” by doing anything “prematurely” or, as here, “frontally.” It is inevitable, so just wait.
The ultimate form: Woke Capitalism; i.e., congratulations, comrade, we’ve already won!
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