Interview med Michael Hardt

Interview med Michael Hardt at the European Social Forum in Malmo Sweden 21 Deptember 2008. Michael Hardt (born 1960) is an American literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University. Perhaps his most famous work (co-written with Antonio Negri) is Empire – which has sometimes been referred to as the "Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century." The sequel to Empire, called Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, was released in August, 2004, and details the idea of the multitude (which Hardt and Negri initially elaborated in Empire) as the potential site of a global democratic movement. In the Fall of 2009, a new co-authored book titled Commonwealth will appear to form a Trilogy.

In Empire Hardt proposes that what he views as the forces of current class oppression, namely - corporate globalization and commodification of services (or "production of affects") - have the potential to fuel social change of unprecedented dimensions.