CAPITAL AS THE ENEMY

"The capital has become a parasite and has lost its ability to represent common interests. Positive modernisation or positive capitalisation do not exist. There is a simple possibility to create a new world. The latter is not revolutionary but a world of absolute democracy. There must exist a new world if people want it."

A Marxist, a university professor, a man, charged with the leadership of the Italian revolutionary left-wing party in the 70s, a former intellectual leader of Autonomia operaia (Worker's Autonomy, author's note), proclaimed a terrorist in the Italian "leaden years" (Anni di piombo), as well as a secret leader of Red brigades (Brigate rosse), an armed group, which has kidnapped and killed Aldo Moro, the president of the Italian Christian Democratic party, a prisoner, a parliament representative of the radical party, living under political asylum, who has voluntarily surrendered to the authorities. Today Antonio or Toni Negri lives under house arrest in Rome. Together with Michael Hardt he has written a world-famous book success Empire which was by some proclaimed as a communist manifesto of the present time, whereas by other as a guidebook of antiglobalisation movements, which is by no means a handbook for revolution.