"The problem with the concept of 'civil society' is the following: the antagonistic character of society is oppressed." Civil society is only a euphemism for the whole range of different resistance fighters.

The identitarian character of a union contradicts with Holloway's argument. He thinks that anti-identitarian struggles are necessary to change a society. "All struggles have to somehow go beyond their limits."

"Left governments, revolutionary or reformist, weren't able to change society radically." Therefore it is necessary to re-think revolution.

Holloway compares international struggles in the past with those today. He uses the examples of the coup in Chile and the Zapatistas in Mexico. The traditional internationalism is currently being replaced by a new globalism: it is not about a struggle at one place and people in other countries who act in solidarity to this, but about having struggles everywhere.

The starting point of Holloway's philosophy is the "no" in the face of the society we live in.

Interview with John Holloway, Berlin April 2004 - The starting point for Holloway's philosophy is the "no". In the society we live in we have to say "no" first. According to Holloway, as a result of that we have to "come back to the question of revoltuion", "but not in the same way as in the past": The idea to take over the state first in order to change the society afterwards has turned out to be wrong.