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Multitudes is a French philosophical, political and artistic monthly review, founded in 2000 by Yann Moulier Boutang. Thematically situated in the theoretical framework of the seminal work Empire by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt. The book, like the review, focuses on the further elaboration of the philosophical and political thought of the Italian operaismo, but seems also to rest on Foucault, Althusser and Deleuze's thought. Successor to Negri's review Futur Antérieur.

Multitudes's name comes from the Spinozist eponymic concept. It has been thought by Toni Negri as an alternative to the classic conception of the people, class consciousness or nation-state. Multitudes can't be represented into a state, as can popular sovereignty be represented in representative democracies.