ABSTRACT
John Holloway's work provides a radical, ambitious and challenging repositioning of Marx, and a critical engagement with both operaismo/autonomia and the Frankfurt School especially Adorno. The dominant narrative of scientific socialism, that crisis arises from the objective economic laws and contradictions, is overturned. For Holloway crisis is not a one-off event, a moment of potential and disruption noticeably different from the smooth normality of capitalism. Holloway argues that the causal origin of the capitalist fetishism of social relations into the state-form, and the particular nature of a state in a specific society, lies in the rebellion of the working class. Rebellion is the revolt against being classed, the refusal of separation and reification; it is a tendency that cuts through all our lives. Holloway's conception of class struggle and communism rests on the concept of anti-power. He sees class struggle as the everyday and ordinary struggle against the process of fetishisation that attempts to fix people into a class.
