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Welcome to Democracy Now, Antonio Negri. Democracy now is really in crisis, but rather than a crisis because the process is certainly an irreversible one. Democracy is very uncertain, fragile, and led by a political class in general that is very weak and incompetent. I believe that there is a manifest

reaction transversing the soul of the younger generations who are trying to renew in

very radical terms this democracy.

So what direction do you think Europe will take now?

I think Europe is waiting for a political action that breaks with neoliberalism.

Austerity is unsustainable.

Necessarily, as we can now see and appreciate in all European countries,

there is pressure towards a rupture with the criteria of austerity,

both as far as the economic dimensions of the problem are concerned, as well as in fact the shift

to a further phase of European political unity.

But this will only be possible when all the political forces of the left take on the

European vocation. This is what is missing today, a renewal of the European left.

Antonio Negre, what about the United States, the role of the United States today and the world?

A demand a more difficult.

This is a very difficult question,

one that I believe not even Americans can answer.

I think that what is noticeable from outside,

because I follow the international

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