On the possibility that the revolution that will end capitalism might fail to usher in communism

Stoetzler, Marcel

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“…The critique of identitarianism, as noted, is a gesture to one of the most pressing issues of our moment – the rise of the far-Right. But, arguably, it remains simply at the level of gesture in Holloway’s work (Stoetzler, 2012). Holloway clearly registers this significant shift since the second instalment of his trilogy, in his comments on the contemporary separation of rage from hope, in his worries about the violent potential of identitarianism.…”

Section: Facing the New Fascismmentioning

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Book Review: Hope in Hopeless Times

el-Ojeili

2022

Journal of Classical Sociology

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Born in Ireland in 1947, contributing to Marxian debates on state theory from the 1970s, and part of the open Marxist current of the 1990s, John Holloway has been based in Mexico since the early 1990s and is currently teaching at the Autonomous University of Puebla. Profoundly influenced by the Zapatistas, Holloway's (2002) Change the World Without Taking Power was, along with Hardt and Negri's (2000) Empire, one of the major theoretical expressions of the alternative globalization movement -both works deeply informed by Italian autonomism.In Hope in Hopeless Times, the final book in his trilogy, Holloway ably summarizes Change the World and its follow-up, Crack Capitalism (Holloway, 2010):The argument of Change the World is that it is necessary to overcome the 'state illusion', the idea that anti-capitalist change can be brought about by the state. The state-centred approach of the twentieth century's revolutions contributed to the tragic outcomes of those movements. We need to think not of taking power-over others but of constructing our power-to create a different world. Crack Capitalism suggested that the only way to think of revolution is as the recognition, creation, expansion, multiplication and confluence of cracks, of moments or spaces in which we break with the logic of capitalist development and develop our power-to do things differently. The argument centred on the clash between two different doings: the doing that is subject to the logic of capital, what Marx calls abstract or alienated labour and a doing that pushes towards self-determination (Holloway, 2022: 19).Hope in Hopeless Times continues the argumentative threads of the first two books -the complete rejection of the state as a means of emancipation, the emphasis on de-fetishization and anti-identity, the championing of the creation, multiplication and linking of autonomous spaces, the priority given to negation. In the most recent volume, though, Holloway pivots from the earlier language of power-to and power-over, in favour of an emphasis on richness, on the one side, and money, on the other and he foregrounds hope, in response to the hopelessness-inducing transformations since the publication of the previous two volumes -the long-running fallout from the GFC, the deepening of

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Section: Facing the New Fascismmentioning

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Book Review: Hope in Hopeless Times

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2022

Journal of Classical Sociology

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“…Contrary to the rumour about Adorno’s critical theory, its negative critique of existing conditions does not entail an impoverished praxis. Rather, it entails the question of praxis (Bonefeld, 2015; Stoetzler, 2012). That is, Adorno’s dictum that ‘society remains class struggle’ (1989: 272) does not express something positive or desirable.…”

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Negative dialectics and the critique of economic objectivity

Bonefeld

2016

History of the Human Sciences

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This article explores Adorno’s negative dialectics as a critical social theory of economic objectivity. It rejects the conventional view that Adorno does not offer a critique of the economic forms of capitalist society. The article holds that negative dialectics is a dialectics of the social world in the form of the economic object, one that is governed by the movement of economic quantities, that is, real economic abstractions. Negative dialectics refuses to accept the constituted economic categories as categories of economic nature. Instead, the article argues, it amounts to a conceptualized social praxis [begriffene Praxis] of the capitalistically constituted social relations, which manifest themselves in the form of seemingly independent economic categories. Economic nature is a socially constituted nature, which entails the class antagonism in its concept. The article concludes that for negative dialectics the explanation of real economic abstractions lies in the understanding of the class-divided nature of human practice.

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John Holloway and the Dialectics of Revolution

Bonnet

2023

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

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On the possibility that the revolution that will end capitalism might fail to usher in communism

Cited by 7 publications

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Book Review: Hope in Hopeless Times

Book Review: Hope in Hopeless Times

Negative dialectics and the critique of economic objectivity

John Holloway and the Dialectics of Revolution

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