ABSTRACT
The ambiguity of the notion of multitude is only the latest example of a more general deadlock of revolutionary thought: from the Marxian "reappropriation of surplus value," the very formula of overcoming capitalist logic remains indebted to what it wants to abolish. For Marx, highly organized corporate capitalism already was "socialism within capitalism", so that one only needs to cut off the nominal head and we get socialism. There is a whole series of concrete questions that this vision gives rise to. However, much more pertinent is another critical point which concerns Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's neglect of the form in the strict dialectical sense of the term. They continuously oscillate between their fascination with global capitalism's "deterritorializing" power, and the rhetoric of the struggle of the multitude against the One of the capitalist power.
