Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Talking about a revolution with John Holloway

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Talking about a revolution with John Holloway

Click here to access article by Jerome Roos from Reflections on a Revolution.

The author interviews a prominent revolutionary thinker to clarify his thinking on appropriate action in today's world. Roos attempts to draw out of Holloway what he means by some of his core beliefs such as this:

We have to think...in terms of our own forms of organization. States don’t make much sense. So we have to think in terms of something from below, creating our own forms of organization and interaction.