Editorial: PM Press

ISBN: 9781629631097

112 págs.

Año: 2016

Formato: Rústica

Idioma: Anglès

In Against And Beyond Capitalism

The San Francisco Lectures

In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism is based on three recent lectures delivered by John Holloway at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. The lectures focus on what anticapitalist revolution can mean today—after the historic failure of the idea that the conquest of state power was the key to radical change—and offer a brilliant and engaging introduction to the central themes of Holloway’s work.

The lectures take as their central challenge the idea that “We Are the Crisis of Capital and Proud of It.” This runs counter to many leftist assumptions that the capitalists are to blame for the crisis, or that crisis is simply the expression of the bankruptcy of the system. The only way to see crisis as the possible threshold to a better world is to understand the failure of capitalism as the face of the push of our creative force. This poses a theoretical challenge. The first lecture focuses on the meaning of “We,” the second on the understanding of capital as a system of social cohesion that systematically frustrates our creative force, and the third on the proposal that we are the crisis of this system of cohesion.

“His Marxism is premised on another form of logic, one that affirms movement, instability, and struggle. This is a movement of thought that affirms the richness of life, particularity (non-identity) and ‘walking in the opposite direction’; walking, that is, away from exploitation, domination, and classification. Without contradictory thinking in, against, and beyond the capitalist society, capital once again becomes a reified object, a thing, and not a social relation that signifies transformation of a useful and creative activity (doing) into (abstract) labor. Only open dialectics, a right kind of thinking for the wrong kind of world, non-unitary thinking without guarantees, is able to assist us in our contradictory struggle for a world free of contradiction.” —Andrej Grubacic, from his Preface

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Palabras clave: Economics, Politics

 
John Holloway (1947, Dublín) es considerado en el ámbito académico como un sociólogo y filósofo del marxismo autónomo. Sin embargo, él nunca se ha definido ni como sociólogo, ni como filósofo, ni como historiador, ni estrictamente como autonomista. Ha considerado su teoría, no como componente de una disciplina académica, sino como contribuciones a la "teoría del cambio social" que para él está constituida en gran parte por el marxismo. Ha desarrollado su pensamiento en cercanía con el zapatismo en México, donde ha vivido desde 1991. Es abogado, doctor en ciencias políticas egresado de la Universidad de Edimburgo y diplomado en altos estudios europeos en el College d'Europe. Desde 1972 es profesor en el Departamento de Política de la Universidad de Edimburgo y, actualmente, profesor del Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales en la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México.
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Preface by Andrej Grubacic

In Against And Beyond Capitalism

The San Francisco Lectures

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In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism is based on three recent lectures delivered by John Holloway at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. The lectures focus on what anticapitalist revolution can mean today—after the historic failure of the idea that the conquest of state power was the key to radical change—and offer a brilliant and engaging introduction to the central themes of Holloway’s work.

The lectures take as their central challenge the idea that “We Are the Crisis of Capital and Proud of It.” This runs counter to many leftist assumptions that the capitalists are to blame for the crisis, or that crisis is simply the expression of the bankruptcy of the system. The only way to see crisis as the possible threshold to a better world is to understand the failure of capitalism as the face of the push of our creative force. This poses a theoretical challenge. The first lecture focuses on the meaning of “We,” the second on the understanding of capital as a system of social cohesion that systematically frustrates our creative force, and the third on the proposal that we are the crisis of this system of cohesion.

“His Marxism is premised on another form of logic, one that affirms movement, instability, and struggle. This is a movement of thought that affirms the richness of life, particularity (non-identity) and ‘walking in the opposite direction’; walking, that is, away from exploitation, domination, and classification. Without contradictory thinking in, against, and beyond the capitalist society, capital once again becomes a reified object, a thing, and not a social relation that signifies transformation of a useful and creative activity (doing) into (abstract) labor. Only open dialectics, a right kind of thinking for the wrong kind of world, non-unitary thinking without guarantees, is able to assist us in our contradictory struggle for a world free of contradiction.” —Andrej Grubacic, from his Preface

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Palabras clave: Economics, Politics

Editorial: PM Press

ISBN: 9781629631097

112 págs.

Año: 2016

Formato: Rústica

Idioma: Anglès

John Holloway (1947, Dublín) es considerado en el ámbito académico como un sociólogo y filósofo del marxismo autónomo. Sin embargo, él nunca se ha definido ni como sociólogo, ni como filósofo, ni como historiador, ni estrictamente como autonomista. Ha considerado su teoría, no como componente de una disciplina académica, sino como contribuciones a la "teoría del cambio social" que para él está constituida en gran parte por el marxismo. Ha desarrollado su pensamiento en cercanía con el zapatismo en México, donde ha vivido desde 1991. Es abogado, doctor en ciencias políticas egresado de la Universidad de Edimburgo y diplomado en altos estudios europeos en el College d'Europe. Desde 1972 es profesor en el Departamento de Política de la Universidad de Edimburgo y, actualmente, profesor del Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales en la Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, México.
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Preface by Andrej Grubacic