ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
In this final part of his ground-breaking trilogy, John Holloway expertly fuses anti-capitalism and anti-identitarianism, and brings hope into the critique of political economy and revolutionary theory, challenging us to find hope within ourselves and channel it into a dignified, revolutionary rage.
Hope lies in our richness, in the joy of our collective creativity. But that richness exists in the peculiar form of money. The fact that we relate to one another through money causes tremendous social pain and destruction and is dragging us through pandemics and war towards extinction.
Richness against money: this battle will decide the future of humanity. If we cannot emancipate richness from money-capital profit, there is probably no hope. Money seems invincible but the constant expansion of debt shows that its rule is fragile. The fictitious expansion of money through debt is driven by fear, fear of us, fear of the rabble. Money contains, but richness overflows.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY John Holloway has published widely on Marxist theory, on the Zapatista movement and on the new forms of anti-capitalist struggle. His book Change the World without Taking Power has been translated into eleven languages and has stirred an international debate, and Crack Capitalism is a renowned classic. He is currently Professor of Sociology in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico.
REVIEWS
'We are at the point zero of a history where everything must disappear or be reborn. For the first time, a movement is growing without leaders or external organisation, with the freedom to become really human. John Holloway is one of those who discern in this poetry of overflowing an uprising of life' Raoul Vaneigem, author of 'The Revolution of Everyday Life'
'A wonderful call to fight and destroy the monstrous capitalist Hydra' Michael Löwy, Marxist sociologist and philosopher
'With a sure touch, Holloway gathers in this volume what he has sown in a life of militancy' Antonio Negri, author of 'The End of Sovereignty'
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface: Stop that train
Part I Rage-Hope-Richness
Today, any day.
Start again. Not from fear but from hope. Not from containment but from overflowing.
Better, start from antagonism, from struggle.
Start from anguish, from Janus. Start from Not Enough! Start from the hydra that we must slay.
Part II We must re-learn hope
It is time to re-learn hope.
To learn hope is to learn to think hope: a docta spes.
Hope pushes beyond identity.
Our hope starts from the scream, not from absence.
The Scream takes us in a negative direction, to overflow.
In this final part of his ground-breaking trilogy, John Holloway expertly fuses anti-capitalism and anti-identitarianism, and brings hope into the critique of political economy and revolutionary theory, challenging us to find hope within ourselves and channel it into a dignified, revolutionary rage.
Hope lies in our richness, in the joy of our collective creativity. But that richness exists in the peculiar form of money. The fact that we relate to one another through money causes tremendous social pain and destruction and is dragging us through pandemics and war towards extinction.
Richness against money: this battle will decide the future of humanity. If we cannot emancipate richness from money-capital profit, there is probably no hope. Money seems invincible but the constant expansion of debt shows that its rule is fragile. The fictitious expansion of money through debt is driven by fear, fear of us, fear of the rabble. Money contains, but richness overflows.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY John Holloway has published widely on Marxist theory, on the Zapatista movement and on the new forms of anti-capitalist struggle. His book Change the World without Taking Power has been translated into eleven languages and has stirred an international debate, and Crack Capitalism is a renowned classic. He is currently Professor of Sociology in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico.
REVIEWS
'We are at the point zero of a history where everything must disappear or be reborn. For the first time, a movement is growing without leaders or external organisation, with the freedom to become really human. John Holloway is one of those who discern in this poetry of overflowing an uprising of life' Raoul Vaneigem, author of 'The Revolution of Everyday Life'
'A wonderful call to fight and destroy the monstrous capitalist Hydra' Michael Löwy, Marxist sociologist and philosopher
'With a sure touch, Holloway gathers in this volume what he has sown in a life of militancy' Antonio Negri, author of 'The End of Sovereignty'
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface: Stop that train
Part I Rage-Hope-Richness
Today, any day.
Start again. Not from fear but from hope. Not from containment but from overflowing.
Better, start from antagonism, from struggle.
Start from anguish, from Janus. Start from Not Enough! Start from the hydra that we must slay.
Part II We must re-learn hope
It is time to re-learn hope.
To learn hope is to learn to think hope: a docta spes.
Hope pushes beyond identity.
Our hope starts from the scream, not from absence.
The Scream takes us in a negative direction, to overflow.