Holloway zu Negri
Eine wenig bekannte Kritik Holloways an Negri, die insbesondere seine (und Hardts) Position zu Frage der Dialektik kritisiert - eine Kritik, die in der Auseinandersetzung um “Empire” zu Unrecht wenig behandelt wurde. Zu Recht weist H. darauf hin, dass “Empire” und “Multitude” abstrakt einander gegenuebergestellt werden. Allerdings hat die von Holloway reklamierte absolute Position des “No” auch nichts Dialektisches an sich.
“Negri, and now Michael Hardt who joins him as co-author of Empire, seek to develop Marxist and revolutionary theory as a positive theory, rather than a negative theory. This has important consequences, theoretically, politically and in terms of the analysis developed in Empire. Behind the analysis of Empire lies a theoretical movement, a rigidifying of the autonomist impulse. It is to this that we must turn before looking at the analysis itself. Autonomist Marxism came on the scene with a furious energy, which can be seen in the oft-quoted passage by Tronti: ‘We too have worked with a concept that puts capitalist development first, and workers second. This is a mistake. And now we have to turn the problem on its head, reverse the polarity and start again from the beginning: and the beginning is the class struggle of the working class’ […] (more…)
