A Grammar of the Multitude
Author | : Paolo Virno |
Publisher | : Semiotext(e) |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2004-01-09 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015061745785 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "During the 1960s and the 1970s I believe that the Western world experienced a defeated revolution - the first revolution aimed not against poverty and backwardness, but against the means of capitalist production, against the Ford assembly-line and wage labor. Post-Fordism, the hybrid forms of life characteristic of the contemporary multitude, is the answer to this defeated revolution. Dismissing both Keynesianism and socialist work ethic, post-Fordist capitalism puts forth in its own way typical demands of communism: abolition of work, dissolution of the State, etc. Post-Fordism is the communism of capital."--Back cover.