In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism : The San Francisco Lectures

John Holloway and Andrej Grubacic’s In, Against, and Beyond Capitalism gathers three San Francisco lectures into a compact meditation on anti-capitalist possibility after the perceived collapse of state-centered revolution. The book refigures what “revolution” might mean when traditional routes to power prove inadequate, shifting emphasis from seizure of the state to immanent, everyday transformations of social life. Holloway’s argument, often summarized as “the logic of the persecutions of the law,” pushes readers to consider how human practices and relations can undermine capitalist structures from within and around. Grubacic complements this with a focus on solidarity, friendship, and collective action as grassroots engines of change, insisting that emancipation arises from shared experiments rather than grand political programs. The lectures traverse themes of resistance, occupation, and the courage to imagine forms of coexistence that do not hinge on state sovereignty. The prose operates as a call to think beyond the binaries of reform and rupture, proposing a praxis that begins in the here and now of everyday life. The resulting text remains provocatively open-ended, inviting readers to test antipower theories in their own communities and moments of ordinary resistance.^*