John Holloway and the Dialectics of Revolution

One of the fundamental inputs of Holloway'sHolloway, John political thought is the tradition of critical theory in a broad sense (LukácsLukács, Georg, BlochBloch, Ernst, HorkheimerHorkheimer, Max, Marcuse) and, in particular, Adorno's negative dialecticsdialectic. It is true that critical theory had already been present in open Marxism since its beginnings, certainly because of the influence it had had among intellectuals linked to the new European lefts of the 1960s and 1970s (see BonefeldBonefeld, Werner et al., 1991a, 1991b, 1995). But, in Holloway'sHolloway, John recent writings, Adorno'sAdorno, Theodor W. negativenegative dialecticdialectic wields a much more significant influence than elsewhere.