----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:13 AM Subject: [PEN-L:32151] Negri explains the "multitude"
> For those who have been somewhat mystified by this term, relief is finally > here. Toni Negri lays the whole thing out at: > http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/13/100202 > > Here is a brief excerpt that should lift the scales from your eyes: > =============== Sorry for the previous empty post. Just goes to show how jargon is a positional good. Creating different idioms and vocabularies to map class struggle in the 21st century is always going to meet resistance. Hell look at the concepts Kant used in the Critique of Pure Reason; a jargonologist's dream, yet so many of the terms are now part of everyday academic discourse that they're viewed as quaint. Ian