Chapter 1: Subjective Figures of the Crisis ... - Negri in English

One condition for this process is not only a "being with" but
a "doing with" others, which spreads and teaches people how to
make decisions. Another decision must be made once the
indebted decides not to pay his or her debt; the mediatized
decides to break away from media control and media mendacity;
the securitized decides to become invisible and learn not to fear;
and the represented decides to refuse to be ruled by
representatives. It requires a leap from the individual to the
collective in order to become an autonomous and participating
political subject. This decision must be both singular and
common.
It should be obvious that in this context the modern
political part}'—either in its representative, parliamentary' form or
in its vanguard form—cannot serve as an organ of this kind of
decision making. In the past, parties have frequently sought to
recuperate the energy and ideals of social movements in order to
legitimate their own power. You have done your work in the
streets, they tell the multitude; now go home and let us take up
the cause in the halls of government. When parties have
succeeded in such operations, sometimes benefiting in the next
election cycle, they have most often destroyed the movements.
Indeed, faced with the movements that erupted in 2011, parties
have tried to reclaim and absorb their power, particularly in the
countries of the Arab spring, but this is no longer possible. The
power of decision created by the movements must reside with
those who are acting together politically and cannot be
transferred beyond that common terrain. When parties fail to
usurp the power of movements, they not infrequently, using
their institutional means, repeat the authoritarian and repressive
practices that the movements had protested in the first place. But
that won't be the end of the story. Even if they disappear from
view and from the headlines for a period, the multitudes will
inevitably reconvene on a new terrain and find new compositions
for expressing their autonomy and power.
Constitutional Examples
Before confronting directly in the next section the
discussion of new powers and a new division of power, it will be