A review by milkbadger
Empire by Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt

3.0

My friend N__ brought this book to my attention. I'm glad he did, although the going was tough at times. Writing from a neo-Marxist perspective, the authors primarily address themselves to the anti-globalization left and argue that many of the movement's goals are not only futile but also misplaced. The book has many illuminating passages, but it suffers frequently from the grandiose abstraction and over-intellectualizing unchecked by hard economic and philosophical analysis that is stereotypical of "critical theory".