Multitude
Multitude is a political term first used by Machiavelli and reiterated by Spinoza. Recently the term has returned to prominence because of its conceptualization as a new model of resistance against the global capitalist system as described by political theorists Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in their international best-seller Empire (2000) and expanded upon in their Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (2004). Other theorists which have recently used the term include political thinkers associated with Autonomist Marxism and its sequelae, including Sylvère Lotringer, Paolo Virno, and thinkers connected with the eponymous review Multitudes.
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Famous quotes containing the word multitude:
“I see ... a multitude ... in transport ... of joy.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)
“Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)