Posted on 10/25/2009, 3:38:18 PM by fiscon1
Writing In the Wall Street Journal, Brian Anderson reviews the concluding volume of the Marxist trilogy by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. Hardt and Negri are the authors of Empire (2000), Multitutude (2004) and now Commonwealth. The books are published by Harvard University Press, supported with the surplus value extracted by capitalists from the back of the proletariat.
Hardt is a professor of literature and Italian at Duke University. From the Press's Web page on Commonwealth (linked above), we learn that Negri is also a distinguished academic. The Press is sparing in its description of Negri's credentials to advance the cause of Marx for moderns. Anderson adds this context to Negri's academic record:
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It will probably be the next book Hugo Chavez gives BO. How human dreck like Hardt become tenured professors at American universities really amazes me. Perhaps I just hear too many bad stories, but academia in this country just seems like a club of wheyfaced, narrow minded totalitarian bigots.
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