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Antonio Negri Quotes on Freedom

Antonio Negri was an Italian Marxist political philosopher and revolutionary intellectual, a leading figure of the Italian operaismo movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and a co-author with Michael Hardt of the influential Empire trilogy. This page collects quotes attributed to Antonio Negri on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Antonio Negri:

    “Empire is the political form of post-Fordist capitalism.”

  • Attributed to Antonio Negri:

    “Living labor is always already in excess of what capital can capture.”

  • Attributed to Antonio Negri:

    “Constituent power must never be reabsorbed into constituted power.”

  • Attributed to Antonio Negri:

    “The struggle is the source; capital is the parasite.”