julio 30, 2011 Article and Chapters / English
John Holloway I In Mary Shelley’s famous story, Dr. Frankenstein creates a Creature, and the Creature then acquires an independent existence, a durable existence in which he no longer depends on the creative activity of Dr Frankenstein. In another story, a story by Jorge Luis Borges, “Las Ruinas Circulares”, a man creates another man, […]
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John Holloway The book is an invitation to discuss, and to all those who have commented on the book, however adverse their criticism, I am very grateful for their acceptance of the invitation.1 The experience of the last two years has been rather like playing at the edge of the sea and being hit by […]
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John Holloway Behind the discussion of empire and imperialism lie certain assumptions about the location of power. For this reason, this paper focuses on the preliminary question “where is power?” But what do we mean by ‘power’ and, even more interestingly, what do we mean by ‘where’? In a self-antagonistic society, all concepts (and all […]
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More than a Reply to Michael Löwy Michael Löwy, in his review of my book, Change the World without taking Power1, argues that “democracy should be a central aspect in all processes of social and political decision making, and particularly in a revolutionary process”. I do not disagree with this, but I think it makes […]
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