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5. In this I differ from Virna: see his book on A Grammar of the Multitude
(2004).
6. For an interesting and imaginative exploration of the new melodies, see
Salinari (2007). For a discussion of the emerging epistemology of the Other
Campaign, see Gomez Carpinteiro (2009).
7. Once we understand critical theory as the voice of doing, and hence doing as
the axis of critical theory, the long-standing problem of the relation between
theory and practice (so anguished in the case of Adorno, for example) begins
to resolve itself. On this question, see the essays in Holloway, Matamoros
and Tischler (2009), and also Schwarzbock (2008).
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1. This example is inspired by the War of Water in Cochabamba, Bolivia, in
2000.
2. Lukacs, still the most compelling voice of that tradition, tells us: 'It is not
the primacy of economic motives that constitutes the decisive difference
between Marxism and bourgeois thought, but the point of view of totality'
(192311988: 27).
3. See the discussion on the nation and the Zapatistas in REDaktion (1997).
4. See, for example, the arguments of Daria Azzelini on Venezuela: Azzelini
(2010, 2006).
5. For a stimulating presentation of this argument, see the book by Miguel
Mazzeo (2007).
6. Zibechi (2006: 26). Zibechi's argument, like the argument here, is an
argument against this view.
7. On difference and contradiction, see Bonnet (2009).
8. See Hardt and Negri (2004), Virno (2004).
9. For an argument along similar lines, see Esteva (2009).
10. For a slightly different use of the term 'communising', see Call: Anonymous
(n.d.).
11. On the climate camp movement and the need for direct action, see Sum burn
(2007).
THESIS 28
1. Thus Horkheimer: 'under the conditions of later capitalism and the
impotence of the workers before the authoritarian state's apparatus of
oppression, truth has sought refuge among small groups of admirable men'
(1937/1972: 237). For Adorno, in modern society 'criticising privilege
becomes a privilege' (1996/1990: 41).
2. In One Dimensional Man: Marcuse (1964/1968: 200).
3. See Postone (1996: 164): 'Like the commodity, the individual constituted
in capitalist society has a dual character.'
4. On the importance of latency as a category, see Bloch (1959/1 986).
5. EZLN (1996: 25). Another extract from the same speech: 'Below, in the
cities and the haciendas, we did not exist. Our lives were worth less than the
machines and the animals. We were like stones, like plants by the wayside.
We did not have a voice. We did not have a face. We did not have a name.
We did not have a tomorrow. We did not exist. For power, that which
today dresses itself worldwide with the name of "neoliberalism", we did
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