Antonio Negri's scientific contributions

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Est-il possible d'être communiste sans Marx ? Évidemment. Il n'empêche qu'il m'arrive souvent d'en discuter avec des camarades et des intellectuels subversifs venant d'autres traditions. Surtout en France - et les considérations qui suivent concernent essentiellement la France. Je dois cependant avouer que cette discussion finit souvent par m'ennuy...

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... Some still inessential revival of Marxism occurred at the end of the twentieth century (Hobsbawm 2011: 385) and after the world crisis of 2008 (e.g., Jeffries 2012), which proves that Marxism rises during the antiphase of economic recovery. Many researchers still argue that even today despite the obvious limits of Marxian conceptions the depth of understanding provides a powerful tool of critical historical analysis (see, e.g., the book edited by Chris Wickham (2007); Ellen Wood (2007) argues that, with the collapse of Communism, the theoretical project of Marxism and its critique of capitalism are more timely and important than ever (see also Negri 1996Negri , 2011. Some saw the outcome from crisis (as it happened many times in the history of Marxist thought) in pessimism, others -in the appeal to the roots of Marxism, third -in the attempts to reform historical materialism which cannot succeed and some insisted on a simple rejection of historical materialism (for the analysis of new lines see Iggers 2010Iggers , 2012; see also below). ...