This final volume in Antonio Negri’s new trilogy aims to clarify
and develop the ‘common’ as a key concept of radical thought.
Here the term is understood in a double sense: on the one hand, as
a collective of production and consumption in which the domination
of capital has been completely realized; on the other hand, as the
cooperation of workers and citizens and their assertion of
political power. The maturation of this duality was the sign of the
limits of capitalism in our age; the common showed itself as the
active force that recomposed production, society and life in a new
experience of freedom. Today the promise of freedom seems
undermined by the very institutions founded to uphold it, as the
charters of western democracy seek to prioritize individualism.
Negri advocates instead a free society founded on the premise that
the good life is to be collectively ordered – in other words, a
society that elevates the common. In his vision, giving political
expression to those who work and produce is the only way of
overturning totalitarian exploitation and of enabling every citizen
to participate in the development of the city. Like its
companion volumes, this new collection of essays by Negri will be a
valuable resource for anyone interested in radical politics and in
the key social and political struggles of our time.
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