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We're stuck conceptually I think between two almost cliche ways of thinking revolution today
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Michael Hardt: We're stuck, almost conceptually, between two almost cliché ways of thinking about revolution. On the one hand, we have the notion of revolution that involves the replacement of a ruling elite with another... better-in many ways-ruling elite. And that's sort of the form that many modern revolutions have taken and have posed great benefits for the people but they have not arrived at democracy. So that notion of revolution is really discredited and I think rightly so. But, opposed to that, is another notion of revolution, which I think is equally discredited but from exactly the opposite point of view, which is it's the notion of revolution that, in fact, hasn't been instituted, that thinks of revolution as just the removal of all of those forms of authority, state power, the power of capital, that stop people from expressing their natural abilities to rule themselves.


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We're stuck conceptually I think between two almost cliche ways of thinking revolution today
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On the one hand we have
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the notion of revolution that involves
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the replacement of a ruling elite
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with another
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better in many ways ruling elite
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And that's in fact the form that many of the modern revolutions have taken
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and have posed great benefits for the people et cetera but they have not arrived at democracy
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And so that notion of revolution is really discredited and I think rightly so
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But opposed to that is another notion of revolution

Clip duration: 37 seconds
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Timestamp in movie: 00h 48m 08s
Uploaded: 27 March, 2022
Genres: documentary
Summary: In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.


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