For this week's podcast we're joined by John Holloway to talk about his most recent book Hope in Hopeless Times, which concludes a trilogy began with Change the World Without Taking Power (2002), and followed by Crack Capitalism (2010).

Kristina and Matt speak with John about the role that revolutionary hope has to play in pushing back against the self-destructiveness of the capitalist hydra. We discuss richness vs. wealth, and overflowing vs. containment in trying to manage people's righteous rage at the system's injustices. We think about identitarianism and struggle, and look at the Zapatista and Kurdish freedom movement's lived attempts at reclaiming the world.

READINGS:

--"​Hope in hopeless times: an interview with John Holloway" - Cihad Hammy, 2022: https://roarmag.org/essays/hope-hopeless-times-holloway-interview/

--"A Note on Hope and Crisis" (2014): https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038514544491

--"Hope Depends On Our Capacity to Create a Different Way of Living" - John Holloway - 2012: https://files.libcom.org/files/OT15.pdf

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 took the argument further, suggesting that the only way in which we can think of revolution today is as the creation, expansion, multiplication, and confluence of cracks in capitalist domination. He is currently Professor of Sociology in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico.

Kristina is an anthropology PhD student who researches mutual aid networks in Brooklyn. She works as a coordinator and community engagement director in housing and immigration.