Re: John Holloway debate/McLaren

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I know you'll agree that we need to be really creative, brave, open minded
> and ready to take on board new ideas. I'm sure Peruvian marxism has much
> to offer, but don't see why that should rule out positive impulses arising
> from the Zapatista strugge. I look forward to reading your critique.
>
> Mervyn

I am for being creative, brave and all that but Holloway's notion of
changing the world seems a bit underwhelming:

"Our struggle is clearly a constant struggle to get away from capital, a
struggle for space, for autonomy, a struggle to lengthen the leash, to
intensify the dis-articulation [I should mention that Holloway uses this
ungainly term a total of 11,225 times in the chapter where this citation
appears] of domination. This takes a million different forms: throwing the
alarm clock at the wall, arriving late for 'work', back pain and other
forms of absenteeism, sabotage, struggles over tea breaks..."

Well, okay. I am all for arriving late for work and all that, but that's
the way I have operated for over 36 years. I don't need to read Autonomist
jargon for that.


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