{"id":14153,"date":"2025-07-17T09:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedomforabdullahocalan.org\/en\/?p=14153"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:04:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T09:04:39","slug":"irish-philosopher-holloway-supports-ocalans-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/?p=14153","title":{"rendered":"Irish philosopher Holloway supports \u00d6calan\u2019s call"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Irish Marxist philosopher John Holloway expressed his support for \u00d6calan\u2019s Peace and Democratic Society Call and the PKK\u2019s disarmament ceremony, saying: \u201cI am deeply honored to join the voices supporting the peace process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anfenglishmobile.com\/uploads\/en\/articles\/2025\/07\/20250716-20250716-holloway-jpg11845e-image-jpga48263-image.jpg?w=1170&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:426px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Irish Marxist philosopher John Holloway&nbsp;is particularly known for advocating a \u201crevolution without a state,\u201d inspired by the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and for his ideas on alternative forms of resistance against capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his message of support of Abdullah \u00d6calan\u2019s Peace and Democratic Society Call, Holloway said:&nbsp;\u201cI am deeply honored to join the voices supporting the peace process. Every step taken to advance the Kurdish Freedom Movement is not only a gain for the Kurdish people but also a beacon of hope for all peoples around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He continued with the following remarks:&nbsp;\u201cWe cannot violently build that other world beyond capitalism that we so desperately want and need. That\u2019s why I wholeheartedly welcome the disarmament. Weapons are made to kill, and killing is the most direct denial of another\u2019s dignity. To change the world, we must reject all symmetrical relationships with power structures. No matter how difficult, we must break their logic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYes, yes, yes to peace, to \u00d6calan\u2019s freedom, to the advancement of the Kurdish Freedom Movement and all movements that struggle against patriarchy, exploitation, and domination!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>John Holloway<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Holloway, born in 1947, is an Irish Marxist philosopher and sociologist. He earned his PhD in political science from the University of Edinburgh. His areas of expertise include radical politics, Marxism, critiques of capitalism, and the Zapatista movement. Since 1991, he has lived and worked in Mexico, closely connected with the Zapatistas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His major works,&nbsp;<em>Change the World Without Taking Power<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Crack Capitalism<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Negativity and Revolution,&nbsp;<\/em>explore the effects of capitalism on individual creativity, power relations, and alternative social movements. Holloway is renowned for his theories on changing the world from an anti-authoritarian perspective<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irish Marxist philosopher John Holloway expressed his support for \u00d6calan\u2019s Peace and Democratic Society Call and the PKK\u2019s disarmament ceremony, saying: \u201cI am deeply honored to join the voices supporting the peace process.\u201d Irish Marxist philosopher John Holloway&nbsp;is particularly known for advocating a \u201crevolution without a state,\u201d inspired by the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/333-33.jpg?fit=990%2C556&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14155,"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14153\/revisions\/14155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}