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NOTES
 TO
 PAGES 347-354 
NOTES
 TO
 PAGES 356-369
 425 
34. Elizabeth
 Povinelli,
 The Cunning of Recognition:
 Indigenous
 Alterities and the 
Making
 of Australian Multiculturalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 
2002). 
35.
 See Antonio
 Negri,
 "Lo
 stato
 dei partiti," in La forma
 stato
 (Milan:
 Fel-
trinelli,
 1977), pp. 111-149. 
36.
 See our presentation of contemporary positions regarding the crisis of de-
mocracy in the global context in
 Michael
 Hardt and Antonio
 Negri,
 Mul-
titude
 (NewYork:
 Penguin, 2004), pp. 231-37. 
37.
 Gunther Teubner, "Societal Constitutionalism: Alternatives to
 State-
Centered Constitutional Theory?" in Transnational Governance and Consti-
tutionalism, ed. Christian Joerges,
 Inger-Johanne
 Sand, and GuntherTeub-
ner (Oxford: Hart, 2004), pp. 3-28. 
38.
 See
 Alain
 Supiot, Au-dela de
 I'emploi
 (Paris: Flammarion, 1999). 
39.
 Robin
 Kelley
 analyzes from a historical perspective a series of revolution-
ary alliances
 that
 border on insurrectional intersections in Freedom Dreams. 
40.
 Jacques
 Ranciere, Disagreement,
 trans.
 Julie Rose (Minneapolis: University 
of
 Minnesota Press, 1999), p. 14. 
41.
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of
 Dialectical
 Reason, vol. 1,
 trans.
 Alan
 Sheridan-
Smith
 (London:Verso, 2004). 
42.
 For
 Lenin,
 see primarily
 What
 Is to Be
 Done?
 (New
 York:
 International 
Publishers,
 1969). On
 Lenin,
 see also Antonio
 Negri,
 Lafabbrica della
 strate-
gia: 33 lezioni su Lenin, 2nd ed. (Rome:
 Manifestolibri,
 2004); and Slavoj 
Zizek,
 ed., Revolution at the
 Gates:
 Ziiek on Lenin, the 1917 Writings
 (Lon-
don:
 Verso,
 2004). For Trotsky, see The History of the Russian Revolution, 
trans.
 Max Eastman (New
 York:
 Simon & Schuster, 1932), esp. chap. 43, 
"The Art of Insurrection." 
43.
 This periodization of vanguard
 political
 figures clarifies our difference 
from
 the propositions of Slavoj
 Zizek
 and Ernesto
 Laclau.
 Zizek's return 
to
 Lenin
 is not so much a reversion to Lenin's method (designing
 political 
composition
 on the basis
 of
 the current technical composition of the pro-
letariat) but, on the contrary, a repetition of the vanguard
 political
 forma-
tion
 without reference to the composition of
 labor.
 Laclau
 instead remains 
faithful
 to the conception of hegemony typical of the next
 phase,
 specifi-
cally
 the one promoted by the Italian Communist Party in its populist 
rather
 than its workerist face. 
44.
 V.
 I.
 Lenin,
 State
 and Revolution
 (NewYork:
 International Publishers, 1971), 
p.
 43. 
45.
 On the development of communist movements in the 1970s, see
 Negri, 
Books
 for Burning. 
46.
 Jean-Luc Nancy, "The Decision of Existence," in The Birth to Presence, 
trans.
 Brian
 Holmes et al. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993), 
pp. 82-109. 
47.
 See
 Michael
 Hardt, "Thomas Jefferson, or, The Transition of Democracy," 
in
 Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of
 Independence
 (London:
 Verso,
 2007), 
pp.
 vii—xxv. 
48.
 See
 Filippo
 Del Lucchese,
 Tumulti
 e indignatio: Conflitto, diritto e moltitudine 
in Machiavelli e Spinoza
 (Milan:
 Ghibli,
 2004). 
49.
 Jean Genet, Prisoner of Love,
 trans.
 Barbara Bray (Hanover,
 N.H.:
 Univer-
sity
 Press of New England, 1992). 
50.
 On
 these
 myths of network politics, see Carlo Formenti, Cybersoviet
 (Mi-
lan:
 Raffaele Cortina, 2008), pp. 201-264. 
51.
 On the
 political
 possibilities of network structures, see
 Tiziana
 Terranova, 
Network Culture (London: Pluto, 2004); Geert
 Lovink,
 Uncanny
 Networks 
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2003);
 Olivier
 Blondeau, Devenir
 media 
(Paris:
 Amsterdam, 2007); and Alexander Galloway and Eugene Thacker, 
The Exploit
 (Minneapolis:
 University of Minnesota Press, 2007). 
52.
 Immanuel Kant, The Conflict of
 Faculties,
 trans.
 Mary
 Gregor
 (Lincoln: 
University
 of
 Nebraska Press, 1992), p. 153 (emphasis added). 
53.
 Ibid., p. 153. 
54. Condorcet, "Sur le
 sens
 du mot revolutionnaire," in CEuvres de Condorcet, 
ed.
 A.
 Condorcet and
 F.
 Arago,
 12 vols. (Paris:
 Firmin
 Didot, 1847), 12:615. 
See also Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (London: Penguin, 1963). 
55.
 W. E.
 B.
 Du
 Bois,
 Black Reconstruction
 (NewYork:
 Russell &
 Russell,
 1935), 
p.
 206. 
56.
 See primarily
 Lenin,
 State
 and Revolution. 
57.
 For one version of the
 argument
 for the "autonomy of the
 political,"
 see 
Mario
 Tronti,
 Sull'autonomia
 del
 politico
 (Milan:
 Feltrinelli,
 1977). 
58.
 See Antonio Gramsci,
 Selections
 from
 the Prison
 Notebooks,
 trans.
 Quintin 
Hoare and Geoffrey
 Nowell
 Smith
 (NewYork:
 International Books, 1971), 
pp. 105-120 (on passive revolution) and pp. 279—318 (on Americanism 
and Fordism). 
59.
 On the distinction between war of movement and war of position, see 
ibid.,
 pp. 229-235. 
60.
 Ibid., p. 286. 
61.
 We have addressed the question of revolutionary violence at various mo-
ments
 in our
 past
 work, but our analysis in this book allows us to offer 
some new insights. See
 Negri,
 Books
 for Burning; and Hardt and
 Negri, 
Multitude, pp. 341-347. 
62.
 Jefferson to
 William
 Short, 3 January 1793, in Thomas Jefferson, Writings, 
ed.
 Merrill
 Peterson
 (New
 York:
 Library
 of
 America,
 1984), p. 1004.