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The legacy of modernity is a legacy of fratricidal wars, devastating "development," cruel "civilization," and previously unimagined violence. Erich Auerbach once wrote that tragedy is the only genre that can properly claim realism in Western literature, and perhaps this is true precisely because of the tragedy Western modernity has imposed on the world.

— 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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