Interview by Amador Fernández-Savater. Translated by Richard
Mac Duinnsleibhe and edited by Arianne Sved of Guerrilla Translation. ROAR Magazine
In 2002, John Holloway published a landmark book: Change the
World without Taking Power. Inspired by the ‘¡Ya basta!’ of the Zapatistas, by
the movement that emerged in Argentina in 2001/’02, and by the
anti-globalization movement, Holloway sets out a hypothesis: it is not the idea
of revolution or transformation of the world that has been refuted as a result
of the disaster of authoritarian communism, but rather the idea of revolution
as the taking of power, and of the party as the political tool par excellence.
