Subject: Re: AUT: Putting Negri to the Test
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 14:17:49 +0100



M, writes: "Negri is quite clear that he sees the multitude as
a class concept, as is Hardt. It is meant to substitute, but not
be reducible to, the traditional notion of the working class. I.e.
N&H want to expand it beyond the bounds of the factory and
even beyond the wage-labour relationship, so that, for
example, it includes the unemployed as well..."

As far as I can see a classical defintion of the working class
always included the unemployed. A critical part of what
defines a wage worker is to be always potentially unemployed.
Far from putting anybody outside the wage-labour relationship,
the condition of unemployment is precisely where wage
slavery clearest manifests itself.

Harald




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