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Odpowiedź Davidowi Harveyowi
Response to David Harvey.

Author(s): Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: multitude vs. singularity; Spinoza; fictitious capital; revolution

Summary/Abstract: The text is a response of authors of Commonwealth to criticism presented by David Harvey. Hard and Negri turn down the primacy of class division over other various identity formations (e.g. race, gender) and they perceive it as field of revolutionary struggle. Then, starting with Spinoza they highlight variety of definitions of singularity and do not agree with the significant role ascribed to the notion of fictitious capital; they point out immaterial aspect of financialization and its role as a “central form of the accumulation of capital.” Finally, they emphasize the importance of recognition of present indignation and revolutionary actions, which could be made only from below.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 04
  • Page Range: 127-133
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Polish