Between the class and the multitude

the concept of class prime in the thought of Antonio Negri

Abstract

The present work aims to carry out, firstly, a slight introduction of the concept of biopolitical flesh, through diferente authors, who are explicitly pursued with the objective of signaling the substrates through which a materialist ontological perspective is based, being the expression of the individuals as traversed by productivity and, in this sense, representative of the characterization of societies and their respective developments. Such an approach is able to provide the sediments that support the description of the so-called multitude, a term that will be presented while rescued from the heart of modern political thought, being later reconfigured through a contemporary threshold. In this way, it will be through a series of comparisons made in relation to certain political entities, such as the Masses, the People and the Class, that the particularities will be explained, which are underlined in order to characterize the concept of Multitude, as well as the entanglements made by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, which point to the possibility of describing a class prime.