Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 20:32:56 +1100
Subject: Re: AUT: re:Toni on Porto Alegre




commie00 wrote:

> 
> now, i agree that negri, for all his positive ideas, etc. has always tended
> toward a leninist / social democratic / liberal politics in many ways. this
> problem is not inherent to the general aspects of his ideas, but specific,
> unnecessary permutations of them he tries to carry thru (both steve and
> harry have covered this territory well in their critiques of him, methinks).

Actually, I suspect it runs deeper than that. So far as I can see, the TN
of the 60s and 70s turned to leninism because he could see no other way
of guaranteeing the process of recomposition. In fact he once made the
semi-cryptic passing comment to Giorgio Bocca (in the latter's book on
the 7 April case) that 'leninism is the price paid for the political
composition of the Italian proletariat' (I quote from memory).


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