Reflections on the commentary of the article “the ‘scream’: John Holloway and the radical materiality of the power-to-do”

Abstract

This article reflects on the “Commentary” on our article “The ‘SCREAM’,” where John Holloway's Marxism and his political proposal of seeing the everyday practices of millions of individuals as a potential for anti-capitalist struggles were explained. “The ‘SCREAM’,” with which John Holloway begins the book Change the World Without Taking Power, is not a desperate “utopian” call, but, in the face of the horrors of the capitalist system, a “belief” that it is possible to go beyond it with our own hands, through the recovery of the “power-to-do” within our reach in the face of the contradictions of capitalism exposed in its fractures (cracks). The aforementioned “Commentary” claims to be concerned with the “proletarian revolution,” and accuses us of omission and negligence – nothing could be more obtuse and meaningless; Holloway's political proposal, which I endorsed with Marxist categories, is above all a call to action; it does not forget class struggles, but broadens them with a view to the process of consciousness and popular revolutionary practices.