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In his contribution,
John Holloway challenges the myth
that Marx promoted a “scientific
socialism” in the positivistic understanding
of “science” and insists rather
on the “negative” and critical aspects
of science. For Holloway, the notion
of fetishism is central to Marx’s
critical approach.
Critiques & Rejoinders for
"The Tradition of Scientific Marxism"
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a rejoinder
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Source: “Change
The World Without Taking Power.
The Meaning of Revolution Today,”
© John Holloway 2002, Chapter
7. Published by Pluto Press. This
chapter used with permission of
the author, as per Creative
Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
Licence 2.0.
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Biographical information
John Holloway
is one of the theoretical supporters
of the Zapatista insurgency in Mexico,
where he has been living and teaching
since 1991. In the widely acclaimed
Change the World Without Taking
Power - The Meaning of Revolution
Today, he drew a picture of
a new form of “low intensity revolution,”
that changes society not by taking
the power, but rather by destroying
the power. In Holloway’s view, the
impulse for revolution begins from
the day-to-day experience of millions
of people living in an unjust world.
In addition to his numerous works
on the Zapatistas, Holloway edited
Global Capital, National State
and the Politics of Money (1995)
and Post-Fordism and Social
Form: A Marxist Debate on the Post-Fordist
State (1992) and has published
numerous articles in Common
Sense, Journal of the Edinburgh
Conference of Socialist Economists,
such as The Relevance of Marxism
Today, The Freeing of Marx,
Open Marxism, and History
and Class Struggle. John was
a Professor at the University of
Edinburgh and currently teaches
at the Institute for the Humanities
and Social Sciences at the Autonomous
University of Puebla (Mexico).
See also: John
Holloway's homepage at [Red]
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