Antonio Negri

There again, it highlights another conspiracy theory.

Antonio Negri ended up teaching right alongside Derrida and Foucault and Deleuze.

Yes, yes.

Yeah, isn't that interesting? Isn't it interesting? He did eventually go back to Italy and decided to serve out the rest of his remainder of his sentence in Italy, and he's remained free to this day.

And if you know Lyotard's corpus well, you will find a version of Marx, particularly in a book like "The Differend," that is incredibly like Lyotard.

When- Negri asks Hart-- I'm sorry, when Neg- uh, Antonio Negri asked in an interview Deleuze about Marx, he says: "Oh, yes, you know, I never gave up on being Marxist." And then he describes what Marxist is, and it sounds just like Deleuze's philosophy and nothing like Marxism.

The same is true of a lot of these other figures.

Derrida does the same, you know, where Marx becomes a specter and all of this.

But the University of Edinburgh was particularly unique in that it's more or less where the Italian tradition of autonomous Marxism, operaismo, made its way into the Anglophone world through a group called Open Marxism.

And as a consequence of that, the Marxists at the university were very open to discussing people like Deleuze, Artusel, Antonio Negri.

And in these sorts of discussions, it quickly became clear that Spinoza was a very important figure for this lineage of Marxism, even to the extent that Althusser, in I think his essays in Self-Criticism says, from a philosophical standpoint, there is only one great predecessor to Marx and that is Spinoza.

Very strange claim.

There again, it highlights another conspiracy theory.

Antonio Negri ended up teaching right alongside Derrida and Foucault and Deleuze.

Yes, yes.

Yeah, isn't that interesting? Isn't it interesting? He did eventually go back to Italy and decided to serve out the rest of his remainder of his sentence in Italy, and he's remained free to this day.