[midge]

>>...the military actions of the democratically elected U.S. government...

I would say the "court-appointed" government.

[The Great Satan]

Wow! This Negri nutter makes Raimondo sound like the voice of reason. There ought to be some kind of award for that.

[hellinahandcart]

I'd like to thank you for posting this, before we get too carried away swatting midges...

[Mr. Bungle]

"Hardt and Negri seek to update Marx’s Capital for the era of economic globalization. In doing so, they plunder every imaginable recent source of academic foolishness, from postcolonialism to Queer Theory to French post–structuralism, and wed it to Marx, Lenin, and even Mao, making the book a kind of up–to–the–minute manual on how to get tenure in today’s university. Empire’s pages brim with the science–fiction–like neologisms that typify much contemporary academic writing: “agentic,” “biopower,” “deterritorialization”—words that give those who wield them the sense of gaining Shaman–like access to hidden realms"

It is safe to assume that neither Hardt nor Negri knows how to change a car tire.

[mutchdutch]

"“The great industrial and financial powers,” the authors warn, “produce not only commodities but also subjectivities”: individuals whose very “needs, social relations, bodies, and minds” respond to the market’s call."

In my years of business consulting, people can tell me in GREAT DETAIL the things they don't want and don't like (sometimes I fit in that catagory and I would dare say many freepers are the same.. only because human nature is human nature whether you are a liberal or conservative) When I ask them "So, what do you want", I usually hear silence.

So, What does this guy want????

[Snuffington]

Hardt and Negri’s contempt for the bourgeois men and women who go to work, attend Mass, raise their kids, and generally live respectable, productive lives is itself contemptible.

That's a point I wish the right would have the courage to make more often. Stop trying to respect these monsters of the academy. When they say they intend to destroy you, take them at their word and act accordingly.

[EternalHope]

Thanks for a great post.

Harvard, the New York Times, and the totalitarian liberals they nurture. Barbarians.

Radical Islam is not the only enemy of civilization.

[Blood of Tyrants]

These nitwits make the same mistake every other communist idiot out there makes. They believe that people will keep being good little productives while tens of millions of deadbeats abuse the system. It always fails because it doesn't take long to realize that you get the same benefits whether you are the hardest, most productive worker or the worst slacker.

Communism will never be anything but slavery with fewer masters as the only way to keep the people working is to force them.

[wotan]

Who wants to see any more of that pallid and parasitic European ruling class that led directly from the ancien régime to nationalism, from populism to fascism, and now pushes for a generalized neoliberalism?

Well, they got one thing right.

[beckett]

Anderson makes some great points and scores some direct hits on the addled minds of the Left, especially when he can show us how insane the language of Hardt and Negri sounds in light of 9/11.

I am more in Sullivan's camp than Anderson's, I think. I see some reason for optimism, some reason to believe that 9/11 dealt a devastating blow to doctrinaire Leftism, perhaps even a mortal blow.