marc brakken

The following is a collection of every statement concerning the concept of the multitude found in Spinoza's Political Treatise. I have extracted the sentences that contain the term, but no surrounding sentences. As such, some of the individual statements suffer from certain gaps, but that is intentional:

And, certainly, I am fully persuaded that experience has revealed all conceivable sorts of commonwealth, which are consistent with men's living in unity, and likewise the means by which the multitude may be guided or kept within fixed bounds. - 1.3

We showed too, that reason can, indeed, do

"It seems to me that one must make a distinction between the Gulag institution and the Gulag question. Like all political technologies, the Gulag institution has its history, its transformations and transpositions, its functions and effects. The internment practiced in the Classical age forms in all likelihood a part of its archaeology. The Gulag question, on the other hand, involves a political choice. There are those who pose it and those who don't. To pose it means four things:

"(a) Refusing to question the Gulag on the basis of the texts of Marx or Lenin or to ask oneself how, through