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Hallazgos

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CRUZ RODRIGUEZ, Edwin. The myth of the crowd. Hallazgos [online]. 2013, vol.10, n.20, pp.193-216. ISSN 1794-3841.  https://doi.org/10.15332/s1794-3841.2013.0020.12.

The crowd category, developed by the Italian philosopher Antonio Negri and his colleagues, is presented as an alternative to link various struggles in the same emancipatory project, without voiding its uniqueness or converging in one identity, but uniting them by what they share in common. However, there are problems when it comes to thinking political action, since it is not clear how the crowd can act politically without sharing some interests and a world view or defining a common antagonist. This article examines these issues from a sociological rather than philosophical perspective. In the first part, we study the concept of multitude, its main critiques and its difficulties to explain political action. The second part analyzes the reformulation of the class struggle on which the category crowd is based using a dialogue with the Marxist tradition that explained the political action of the working class and identifies its main limitations.

Keywords : crowd; political entity; political action; working class; post-Fordism.

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