Empire
by Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri

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Book Review: * So Many Weak Spots, It Undermines It's Premise *
Summary: 2 Stars

What is the real threat of EMPIRE anyway? The authors never really address thi point. By any measurement, life on this mortal coil is infinitely better than when Marx or Lenin wrote, for more people than ever before. Life expectancy is up 100% in the last 75 years, literacy rates have more than doubled, and more people live in more democracies than ever before. These trends have accelerated in the last 20 years - the years in which the authors claim that EMPIRE came to be. Take a look at Marber's book Money Changes Everything for some real facts that bury the purported evils of EMPIRE. If the consequences of EMPIRE are better living standards globally for billions, I think most readers (and workers of the world) would vote for EMPIRE over the decentralized revolution for which our naive communist writers call.

This is a shame. Because the great observation here is that EMPIRE transcends national borders; yes, this is a very valid point and more academics should delve into the withering of sovereignty. But the authors'conclusion - that EMPIRE is inherently bad - is such a miscue. What planet do they live on?

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