Carolina QuotesEvery identity, such (third) critics say, even the multitude, must be defined by its remained, those outside of it, call them excluded, the abject, or the subaltern. … There can certainly be points or nodes outside a network but none are necessarily outside. Its boundaries are indefinite and open. … None is necessarily excluded but this inclusion is not guaranteed: the expansion of the common is a practical, political manner. (226)
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“Every identity, such (third) critics say, even the multitude…” Antonio Negri. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-055BDF1998. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/055bdf1998
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All of those who are "without" - without employment, without residence, without housing - are really excluded only in part.
The poor are thought to be dangerous, either morally dangerous because they are unproductive social parasites - thieves, prostitutes, drug addicts, and the like - or potentially dangerous because they are disorganized, unpredictable, and tendentially reactionary. In fact the term lumpenproletariat (or rad proletariat) has functioned for times to demonize the poor as a whole. … The industrial reserve army is a constant threat hanging over the heads of the existing working class because, first of all, its misery serves as a terrifying example to workers of what could happen to them, and, second, the excess supply of labor it represents lowers the costs of labor and undermines workers' power against employers (by serving potentially as strike breakers, for example).
Reality and history, however, are not dialectical, and no idealist rhetorical gymnastics can make them conform to the dialect.