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
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Attributed to Antonio Negri:
“Empire is the political form of post-Fordist capitalism.”
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“Living labor is always already in excess of what capital can capture.”
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Attributed to Antonio Negri:
“Constituent power must never be reabsorbed into constituted power.”
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Attributed to Antonio Negri:
“The struggle is the source; capital is the parasite.”
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“Perhaps some day soon we will have arrived at the point when we can look back with irony at the barbaric old times when in order to be free we had to keep our own brothers and sisters slaves or to be equal we were constrained to inhuman sacrifices of freedom.”
Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire