John Holloway (sociologist)

John Holloway (born 1947) is a lawyer, Marxist-oriented sociologist and philosopher, whose work is closely associated with the Zapatista movement in Mexico, his home since 1991. It has also been taken up by some intellectuals associated with the piqueteros in Argentina; Abahlali baseMjondolo movement in South Africa and the Anti-Globalization Movement in Europe and North America.

He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and has a Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Edinburgh. He is currently a teacher at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the Autonomous University of Puebla.

His 2002 book, "Change the World Without Taking Power", has been the subject of much debate in Marxist, anarchist and anti-capitalist circles, and contends that the possibility of revolution resides not in the seizure of state apparatuses, but in day-to-day acts of abject refusal of capitalist society – so-called anti-power, or 'the scream' as he puts it repeatedly. He is considered by supporters and critics to be broadly Autonomist in outlook, and his work is often compared and contrasted with that of figures such as Antonio Negri.

He is brother to writer and academic David Holloway, and first cousin to Canadian political activist Kate Holloway and Canadian entertainer Maureen Holloway.

Holloway's thesis has been criticized by thinkers like Tariq Ali and Slavoj Zizek.

Books in English

*"State and Capital: A Marxist Debate" (1978), ISBN 0-7131-5987-1, ed. with Sol Piccioto
*"Social Policy Harmonisation in the European Community" (1981), ISBN 0-566-00196-9
*"Post-Fordism and Social Form: A Marxist Debate on the Post-Fordist State" (1991), ISBN 0-333-54393-9, ed. with Werner Bonefeld
*"Global Capital, National State, and the Politics of Money" (1995), ISBN 0-312-12466-X, ed. with Werner Bonefeld
*"Open Marxism: Emancipating Marx" (1995), ISBN 0-7453-0864-3, ed. with Werner Bonefeld, Richard Gunn and Kosmas Psychopedis
*"Zapatista!: Reinventing Revolution in Mexico" (1998), ISBN 0-7453-1178-4, ed. with Eloína Peláez
*"Change the World Without Taking Power" (2002), ISBN 0-7453-1864-9
*"Negativity and Revolution: Adorno and Political Activism" (2008) ISBN 978-07453-2836-2, ed. with Fernando Matamoros & Sergio Tischler