John Holloway: Life against Money (09 April 2023)

Session IV: Education 4.2 John Holloway: Life against Money The challenge launched by the Zapatistas on their recent trip to Europe. In this war there is no neutrality: we are with money, or with life. Money binds us in, constricts our daily activity, destroys. The richness of life overflows all bonds, breaks all definitions and identities, creates. Education that takes the side of life against money sings the poetry of overflowing. Education is the movement of hope against hopelessness: a conflict that is nowhere sharper than in Kurdistan at this moment, but fills all the earth. John Holloway teaches sociology in Puebla, Mexico. His books, “Change the World without taking Power” (2002) and “Crack Capitalism” (2010) have each been translated into a dozen languages and have stirred international controversy. The third book of the trilogy, “Hope in Hopeless Times” was published in September 2022.