Antonio Negri Quotes on Politics
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 politics, 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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“The multitude is the productive flesh of the world.”
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Attributed to Antonio Negri:
“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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“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.”
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“The refusal of work and authority, or really the refusal of voluntary servitude, is the beginning of liberatory politics.”
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“[No] effective blueprint [of a political alternative to Empire] will ever arise from a theoretical articulation such as ours.”
(206)