Antonio Negri, Empire and the strange trajectory of Italian workerism

Abstract

Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt's Empire is an ambitious attempt to explore the new configuration of the capitalist system introduced by neo-liberal globalisation, and to re-pose the fundamental categories of the politics which we inherit from modernity. Does the book contribute to a better understanding of the present-day world? What implications does it have for the reconstruction of a radical theory of society? What is autonomist Marxism?