Antistate war machines
The diversity of socialised labour, its increased capacity for self-organisation and the richness of communicative resources available to it render obsolete the Bolshevik concept of a centralised, authoritarian 'dictatorship of the proletariat,' and makes possible a rethinking of revolutionary goals in terms of a 'working class pluralism' (Negri 1980, 37).
The program outlined by Negri and his comrades include the guaranteed equalitarian incomes, the reconstruction of a participatory civil society outside the state, the building of networks of localised, user run social services, radical innovation and rearrangement of the working day, and the passage of production into communal, cooperative forms, some of which they see foreshadowed in feminist organisational experiments (Negri 1988; Guattari and Negri, 1990).
This project would clearly draw on the full communicational and computational resources of the 'information society'. We have seen that unlike scientific socialists - and information society theorists - autonomists find no inherently 'progressive' logic in technological development.
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