Paolo Virno

There are some analogies and many differences between the contemporary multitude and the multitude studied by the political philosophers of C17th.

Virno discusses Marx’s undeveloped concept of the ‘general intellect’, an idea that has become central to many autonomist readings of Marx seeking to understand ‘post-fordist’ (i.e. post industrial) capitalism (2,000 words).

[b]This interview illustrates the move amongst the post-Leninist Italian radical left towards an anarchist view of the state, as well as Virno’s insistence that the concept of ‘multitude’ does not replace the concept of ‘working class’ and his controversial assertion that fear and insecurity – which he calls ‘precarity’ – define the globalised world.

The practices and the languages adopted by the Movement seem to suggest an alternate type of socialization, different than that based on the exchange of equivalent values. The "technical-scientific intellect", "off-the-books" labor, the feminist movement, young proletarians, etc.