Reviews of Hardt and Negri's Empire
Is the emperor wearing clothes? [In Swedish]
A review of Negri and Hardt's book Empire from an anarchist perspective (Andrew Flood)
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Is the emperor wearing clothes?
A review of Negri and Hardt's Empire from an anarchist perspective
Left Business Observer #96, February 2001
Quite good at looking as some of the emperical facts around EmpireToni Negri in perspective Autumn 2001
Alex Callincos
long article from the IS international leader but doesn't say a whole lot new as it concentrates on the correct reading of holy father MarxGopal Balakrishnan New Left Review 5 September-October 2000
Contains a fairly good explanations of the Roman era references in EmpireJohn Bellamy Foster Monthly Review December 2001
Concentrates on Empires treatment of ImperialismMalcolm Bull, The London Review of Books October 2001
Quite long with a bit about the Spinoza stuffThe Observer Profile: Michael Hardt Empire hits back July 2001
from the British liberal paperStruggles for freedom (Feb 2001)
Andrew Coates reviews Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's EmpireThe Ineducable Left (Feb 2001)
Brian C. Anderson in First Things, the Journal of Religion and Public LifeJ.W. Mason Marxism list Dec 2001
Robert J. Bliwise Duke Magazine Nov 2001
Post S11 interrview with HardtCharles Mudede and Nicolas Veroli September 2001
Dean Kuipers, LA Times, Oct 2001
Fairly decent but basic post S11 introductionDuncan S. A. Bell, Centre of International Studies, Cambridge University
Roger Kimball The New Criterion October 2001
Very ranty attack on Empire partly based on the obscure language and use of Marx and partly on Negri's connection with the Red BrigadesAlan Wolfe The New Republic October 2001
A relatively coherant right liberal critique that loses it completely at times. Most of the other right wing reviews rip this one off.Jon Beasley-Murray
draft paper which is quite good on the Italian political backgroundQuoted comments from the Harvard Review of Books
A selection of quotations from reviews of EmpireReview by Laurance Cox Libertartian,Irish Academic and Activist
Review from the English Class war
Background material
Hardt and Negri 'chat' on Empire
Quite useful for clarifying some of the issues that have arisen and the terms used in Empireresources for empire reading group
The Relevance of Antonio Negri to the Anti-Globalization Movement July 2001
Not Bored
Starts off with a critique of Negri's softness on the level of state involvement in the Red Brigades and extends this to the Black Block in Genoa. Left communist perspectiveThe new workerism: the politics of the Italian autonomists Spring 1980
Jack Fuller
Fairly mechanical description of the autonomists from a Trotskyist viewpointExecutive Intelligence Review "Toni Negri, Profile of A Terrorist Ideologue" August
Nutty Lyndon LaRouche publication, wonderfully paranoid article that links Negri to the Emperor Vespasian!