…That is the power of Eurocentrism.

India, however, is not merely different from Europe. India (and every local reality within India) is singular - not different from any universal standard but different in itself. If the first Italian writer could free himself of Europe as standard he could grasp the singularity. This singularity does not mean, however, that the world is merely a collection of incommunicable localities. Once we recognise singularity, the common begins to emerge. Singularities do communicate, and they are able to do so because of the common they share. We share bodies with two eyes, ten fingers, ten toes; we share life on this earth; we share capitalist regimes of production and exploitation; we share common dreams of a better future. Our communication, collaboration, and cooperations, furthermore, not only are based on the common that exists but also in turn produce the common. We make and remake the common we share every day. If the second Italian writer could free himself of Europe as standard, he could grasp this dynamic relation of the common.

Here is a non-Eurocentric view of the global multitude: an open network of singularities that links together on the basis of the common they share and the common they produce. It is not easy for any of us to stop measuring the world against the standard of Europe, but the concept of the multitude requires it of us. It is a challenge. Embrace it.

Hardt and Negri, Multitude (128-129:2004)