[NetBehaviour] Red Alert? An interview with Antonio Negri.

[marc garrett]

Red Alert? An interview with Antonio Negri.

The Marxist revolutionary and anti-globalisation guru talks...

In the late 1980s, the Italian President Francesco Cossiga described 
Antonio Negri as "a psychopath" who "poisoned the minds of an entire 
generation of Italy's youth". Negri has been accused of murdering 
Italy's former Prime Minister, Aldo Moro, and of being il grande vecchio 
- the grand old man - behind the Red Brigades, one of the most notorious 
terror groups to attack post-war Europe until al-Qa'ida. In prison he 
co-wrote an anti-globalisation bible, Empire. Now he's out, and he's 
heading to London. I am waiting patiently at the Institute of 
Contemporary Arts, in the shadow of Buckingham Palace, to have my mind 
poisoned.

"I'm afraid Antonio's gone Awol," his publicist explains, diffidently. 
And he's due to speak to a crowd of 200 at the ICA in just an hour. "We 
sent a taxi to pick him up and... well... he's not there. Apparently, 
this happens." I take this opportunity to have another go at finishing 
Empire. An unexpected bestseller, the book was written by Negri and an 
American friend and fellow-academic, Michael Hardt, in the late 1990s, 
and has now topped 40,000 sales. Thanks to its impossibly dense thickets 
of sociological prose, it has developed a reputation as the Finnegans 
Wake of political writing, a book much purchased but never finished.

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