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Empire is emerging today as the center that supports the globalization of productive networks and casts its widely inclusive net to try to envelop all power relations within its world order — and yet at the same time it deploys a powerful police function against the new barbarians and the rebellious slaves who threaten its order.

— Antonio Negri

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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.

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Globalization must be met with a counter-globalization, Empire with a counter-Empire.

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