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Antonio Negri  

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  • The publication of Empire (Hardt and Negri, 2000) brought Negri worldwide recognition as a postmodern Marxist political theorist. A professor of social theory at the University of Padua in the early 1960s, Negri departed from communist orthodoxy in criticising not just alienated labour but Marx's high notion of the virtue of labour; he argued that workers needed to liberate themselves from work itself. [Source: The SAGE Dictionary of Sociology; Negri, Antonio (1933–)]

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