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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Michael Hardt
(born 1960) is an American literary theorist and political philosopher
perhaps best known for Empire, written with Antonio Negri and published
in 2000. It has been called the Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century.
Hardt and his co-author suggest that what they view as forces of
contemporary class oppression, globalization and the commodification of
services (or production of affects), have the potential to spark social
change of unprecedented dimensions. A sequel, Multitude: War and
Democracy in the Age of Empire, published in August 2004, details the
notion, first propounded in Empire, of the multitude as possible locus
of a democratic movement of global proportions.
