Antonio Negri Quotes

Italy, Sociologist
August 1, 1933

Antonio "Toni" Negri is an Italian Marxist sociologist and political philosopher, best known for his co-authorship of Empire and secondarily for his work on Spinoza.

Also known as Philosopher

Cooperation is in fact the living and productive pulsation of the multitudo. Cooperation is the articulation in which an infinite number of the singularities are composed as productive essence of the new. Cooperation is innovation, richness, and thus the basis of the creative surplus that defines the expression of the multitudo.

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The possibility of democracy on a global scale is emerging today for the very first time.

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The fact of being within capital and sustaining capital is what defines the proletariat as a class.

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- Class
- Capital
- Defines
The refusal of work and authority, or really the refusal of voluntary servitude, is the beginning of liberatory politics.

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Reality and history, however, are not dialectical, and no idealist rhetorical gymnastics can make them conform to the dialect.

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- History
- Reality
- Dialect
A specter haunts the world and it is the specter of migration.

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- World
- Migration
- Specter
It is a commonplace of the classical literature on Empire, from Polybius to Montesquieu and Gibbon, that Empire is from its inception decadent and corrupt.

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- Corrupt
- Empire
- Decadent
All wars today tend to be netwars.

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- Wars
- Tend
- Netwars

Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the principal form of punishment in a capitalist society.

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Disobedience to authority is one of the most natural and healthy acts.

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