Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 05:37:40 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: AUT: Putting Negri to the Test



--- Harald Beyer-Arnesen <haraldba-AT-online.no> wrote:
> 
> 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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But wasn't the unemployed part of the
"lumpenproletariat" who Marx denigrated?


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