I don't so much mind the concept of the multitudes - but Negri's and Hardt's rendering of it is the least interesting of a whole discussion on it. Paolo Virno's _Grammar of the Multitude_ is a bit better, though not without its own problems.

The main problem, seems to me, is that the term 'multitude' has been substituted for 'working class', but this hasn't always meant dispensing with the apparatus of destiny, teleology and identity that marked the uses of 'working class'.
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