1. The contemporary organic intellectual considers himself no longer as the representative of his ‘people’, but imposes himself as a spokesperson for the multitude of political and economic refugees, of illegal digitarians, of rebellious allochtone youngsters, of insecure workers in industries that delocalise from ‘the north’ or ‘the west’, and of outrageously exploited workers in industries who relocated in ‘the south’ or ‘the east’.

La résistance contre la machine capitaliste doit se situer résolument au niveau de l’Empire lui-même. L’Empire, Negri et Hardt le disent franchement, vaut mieux que l’Etat-nation, de même que, pour Marx, le capitalisme était préférable à la féodalité.