Harry M. Cleaver wrote: >Historically it its. Marx used the term to talk about capital's own >expansion, the way it "valorized" itself quantitatively. Negri took the >term, obscure as it was, and turned it inside out applying it to working >class subjectivity. Instead of capital valorizing itself, workers >sometimes valorize themselves, not as moments of capital but as autonomous >subjects (building post capitalist social relations or communism). Some of >us have used in this sense to focus on the creative positive side of >struggle that goes beyond resistance and attack to constitutive power >--the founding of alternatives. All I can say is we need a lot more of this. Doug
