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1933–2023 United States
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri are the co-authors of Empire and Multitude.
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Also known as: Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Empire (Hardt and Negri book), Hardt and Negri, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt
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The refusal of work and authority, or really the refusal of voluntary servitude, is the beginning of liberatory politics.
If by free market one means a market that is autonomous and spontaneous, free from political controls, then there is no such thing as a free market at all. It is simply a myth.
Economics is more disciplinary than any other discipline, and it has been ever since its origins.
and Antonio Negri in Multitude (2005)
Globalization must be met with a counter-globalization, Empire with a counter-Empire.
The possibility of democracy on a global scale is emerging today for the very first time.
A specter haunts the world and it is the specter of migration.
All of those who are "without" - without employment, without residence, without housing - are really excluded only in part.
'Globalization' is a horrible term, in the sense that it encompasses all kinds of things; it's used very widely and vaguely.
Reality and history, however, are not dialectical, and no idealist rhetorical gymnastics can make them conform to the dialect.
Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.
The task of a theory of class is to identify the existing conditions for potential collective struggle and express them as a political proposition.
Simplifying a great deal, one could argue that postmodernist discourses appeal primarily to the winners in the processes of globalization and fundamentalist discourses to the losers.
When the general population no longer constitutes the armed forces, when the army is no longer the people in arms, then empires fall. Today all armies are again tending to become mercenary armies.
It is a commonplace of the classical literature on Empire, from Polybius to Montesquieu and Gibbon, that Empire is from its inception decadent and corrupt.
Fleeing from a life of constant insecurity and forced mobility is good preparation for dealing with and resisting the typical forms of exploitation of immaterial labor.
In the same way that the figure of the peasant tends to disappear, so too does the figure of the industrial worker, the service industry worker and all other separate categories.
We share bodies with two eyes, ten fingers, ten toes; we share life on this earth; we share capitalist regimes of production and exploitation; we share common dreams of a better future.
[on zapatistas] The goal has never been to defeat the state and claim sovereign authority but rather to change the world without taking power.
All wars today tend to be netwars.
In fact, the old Marxist distinctions between productive and unproductive labor, as well as that between productive and reproductive labor, which were always dubious, should now be completely thrown out.