Michael Hardt on revolution

From the excellent documentary Examined life. Check it out!

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[S2Cents]

Hardt spots Barrack Obama at 2:52

[almanacofsleep]

Maybe cuz Classical liberalism, with its freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and free markets are a smoke screen for the alienation suffered under capitalism one which reduces us all to something less than human. Only by smashing class society can we free ourselves from the fetters of commodification. I guess that is why he favours Marx over your man but its just a guess,

[Ana Luiza]

I had never watched Michael speaking and now I understand the reason Americans believe that Noam Chomsky is an important thinker and is talking on behalf of people.

[Ana Luiza]

Ok. Michael will miss shampoo, conditioner and his bed if he goes to the mountains to start a revolution.

hahahahahaha

[fatfacekid]

You're conceptualizing human nature in the wrong way. Your claim about changing the human genetic makeup proves this - we are more than our physical being. What Michael was saying is that human nature is always malleable and unfixed but also constituted by what was before us (we are "temporal beings" in Heidegger's words). So it's more of a dialectical process of "becoming" rather then "being." In this way human nature can always change and, in fact, it will always change.

[Deleuzeshammerflow]

but are conceptions of human nature even useful anymore? We are socially produced through once discipline society to society of control, there is no nature any longer; there is discourse. The left does advocate more government but these leftist politics you attempt to place within a spectrum are not quite a part of that dichotomy. I want no government, I want to dissolve hierarchy and power relations, you're beginning from a modernist/classical epistemology that is irrelevant now.

[Deleuzeshammerflow]

biopolitical production of the social is one of classical liberalism's most disgusting innovations. Tocqueville is just another shit bourgeois theorist

[Mike Johnson]

He pinpoints his fatal mis-step at about 7:20 when he imagines we can change human nature. We won't be changing human nature short of genetic tampering--who wants that--we need a system that takes human failings into account. Lucky for us a bunch of old white men came up with the best yet devised a couple of centuries back. Minimize government & man's power over other men and we'll get on fine.

What a perfect metaphor for the Left: Trying to row forward while looking back and running aground.

[lincolnjfinch]

Does he say "arm cell"? or what? 2:06

[TheLightKit]

My mom is dating this guy in lincoln NE