Questions primarily related to the article entitled Communism as Critique:
1. Why do Hardt and Negri ask, in "Communism as Critique," if dinosaurs still walk the earth?
2. What is a Marxist theory of the state for "the radical Marxist author"?
3. What is a theory of juridical communism?
4. What are the two elements of the communist theoretical practice that emerge from the quote: "Communism is the real movement that destroys the present state of things"?
5. What does Marx assume about living labor?
6. Why is a negative method not enough?
7. Link the notion of "living labor" to the case of Wendt.
8. To what does the concept of labor primarily refer?
9. Explain Marx's theory of abstract labor.
10. Discuss self-valorization, necessary labor and the Wendt case.
11. Link feminism to the discussion of labor and value. Mention affective, caring labor and "women's work."
12. How is the very concept of labor mobile and historically defined through contestation.
13. Discuss the factory as the paradigmatic site or the concentration of labor and production.
14. Why do Hardt and Negri write that "[w]hen Marx posed labor as the substance of human history, then, he erred perhaps not by going too far, but rather by not going far enough."
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