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“The Leninist party, Negri insists, assumes the model of a factory: it takes the raw material of the workers’ spontaneous subjectivity and transforms it into a coherent and subversive weapon (Negri 1976c: 29-30). This Leninist conception of organization is an implicit critique of the two positions which define its borders: on one side it is the critique of anarcho-syndicalism, which recognizes working-class subjectivity in the spontaneity of struggles but refuses its specifically political organization (Negri 1976c: 43); and on the other side it is the critique of any attempt to pose a revolutionary organization which is not firmly based in the spontaneity of the masses.”
- Michael Hardt, Into the Factory: Negri’s Lenin and the Subjective Caesura
- Michael Hardt, Into the Factory: Negri’s Lenin and the Subjective Caesura