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The political program of nation building in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq is one central example of the productive project of biopower and war. Nothing could be more postmodernist and antiessentialist than this notion of nation building.

— 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.

Economics is more disciplinary than any other discipline, and it has been ever since its origins.

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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.

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