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It is time to learn the
new language of a new struggle.
There is a great anguish in all of this. It is the anguish of 'what
an we do?' We see and feel the injustices of capitalism all around
us: the people-sleeping in the streets even in the richest cities, 1
the millions who live on the brink of starvation until then they
die of it. We see the effects of our social system on the natural
world: the colossal accumulation of rubbish, the global warming
for which there may be no remedy. We see the powerful on the
television and want to scream at them. And all the time: what
can we do, what can we do, what can we do?2
This book is the daughter of another. Change the Wo rld
without taking Power (Holloway 2002/2005) argued that the
need for radical social change (revolution) is more pressing and
more obvious than ever, but we do not know how to bring it
about. We know, from experience and from reflection, that we
cannot do it by taking state power. But then how? The echo
'omes back over and over again: but then how, then how, how,
how, how? In one meeting after another: 'Yes, we do not want to
g t involved in the smug, false, destructive world of state politics,
hut then how, what do we do? We created a great experiment in
Oaxaca where the people took control of the city for five months,
hut then we were brutally repressed, so now how, where do we
go?' Now, with the manifest crisis of capitalism, the question
L'OIll 's more and more urgent: but then how? what do we do?
'I'h cia lighter is quite independent of the mother: there is no
Il('t'd to have read Change the World in order to understand the
:\1'!',1I111 'nt· here. Yet the concern is the same: how can we think of
l hilll!'i ng t h 'world radically when it seems to be so impossible?
Whl1t ':111 w ' do?
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