'' Multitude '' addresses these issues and elaborates on the assertion , in the Preface to '' Empire '' , that : " The creative forces of the multitude that sustain Empire are also capable of autonomously constructing a counter-Empire , an alternative political organization of global flows and exchanges . " The rapid growth of the alter-globalisation movement , evident in the large protests in Seattle in 1999 and in Genova in 2001 , along with the creation of the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre , also in 2001 , seemed to substantiate the optimistic outlook at the end of '' Empire '' . The terrorist attacks on September 11 , 2001 and subsequent rise of state-sponsored " counter-terrorism " seem , however , to have complicated this optimism
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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire