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Friends,
Hope is dead. Long live hope! Whereas once hope was simply an audacious wish that we turned over to representatives of power, hope now can be a radical act through which we erode power.

But how? How do we leverage hope to help us direct and engage rather than simply wish and spectate?

To investigate this, I asked one of the most exciting and influential political thinkers of our time, JOHN HOLLOWAY.

John is the author of many influential and internationally recognized books, including Hope in Hopeless Times (the last in a series of books about how to find new strategies of flourishing and living away from capitalism, starting with Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today and its sequel, Crack Capitalism.) He teaches sociology in the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, and has worked with the Zapatista movement.

In this episode, we talk about hope without delusion. Dreaming big without forgetting to act, acting small without forgetting the big vision, how and why we need to get rid of money, and more. I’m so happy to have spoken with John and to share this with you!

MORE ON JOHN

John’s work is one of the center points of PULTO PRESS‘s catalog. Works from other publishers include We Are the Crisis of Capital: A John Holloway Reader and In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism: The San Francisco Lectures.

Here’s the beginning of one of his conversations with AEWCH 246 & 120 guest, Michael Hardt.
John has written on and worked with the Zapatistas, and here’s an early essay on that framing and work, “The Concept of Power and the Zapatistas”.

Here’s John in discussion with Slavoj Žižek and Alex Callinicos; it’s a great discussion that in a potent moment highlights the maturity of John’s expansive vision, versus Žizek’s immature and unworkable one, where John pushes on imagining new solutions with mutual aid, where Žižek simply imagines more police and military power.

(PS: THE PAINTING that I made the title card from belongs to MARINA PETRO. Please look at, share, and purchase her work!)