"Crack Capitalism," argues that radical change can only come about through the creation, expansion and multiplication of weak points, or "cracks" in the capitalist system.
John Holloway's previous book, "Change the World Without Taking Power," sparked a world-wide debate among activists about the most effective methods of resisting capitalism. Now Holloway rejects the idea of a disconnected plurality of struggles and finds a unifying contradiction -- the opposition between the time we spend working as part of the system and our excess "doing" where we revolt and refuse to be subsumed.
Clearly and accessibly presented in the form of 33 theses, "Crack Capitalism" is set to reopen the debate among radical scholars and activists seeking to break capitalism.
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"Crack Capitalism," argues that radical change can only come about through the creation, expansion and multiplication of weak points, or "cracks" in the capitalist system.
John Holloway's previous book, "Change the World Without Taking Power," sparked a world-wide debate among activists about the most effective methods of resisting capitalism. Now Holloway rejects the idea of a disconnected plurality of struggles and finds a unifying contradiction -- the opposition between the time we spend working as part of the system and our excess "doing" where we revolt and refuse to be subsumed.
Clearly and accessibly presented in the form of 33 theses, "Crack Capitalism" is set to reopen the debate among radical scholars and activists seeking to break capitalism.
Show morePart I Break
1. Break. We want to break. We want to create a different world.
Now. Nothing more common. Nothing more obvious. Nothing more
simple. Nothing more difficult.
2. Our method is the method of the crack.
3. It is time to learn the new language of a new struggle.
Part II Cracks: The Anti-Politics of Dignity
4. The cracks begin with a No, from which there grows a dignity, a
negation-and-creation.
5. A crack is the perfectly ordinary creation of a space or moment
in which we assert a different type of doing.
6. Cracks break dimensions, break dimensionality.
7. Cracks are explorations in an anti-politics of dignity.
Part III Cracks on the Edge of Impossibility
8. Dignity is our weapon against a world of destruction.
9. Cracks clash with the social synthesis of capitalism.
10. Cracks exist on the edge of impossibility, but they do exist.
Moving they exist: dignity is a fleet-footed dance.
Part IV The Dual Character of Labour
11. The cracks are the revolt of one form of doing against another:
the revolt of doing against labour.
12. The abstraction of doing into labour is the weaving of
capitalism.
13. The abstraction of doing into labour is a historical process of
transformation that created the social synthesis of capitalism:
primitive accumulation.
Part V Abstract Labour: The Great Enclosure
14. Abstract labour encloses both our bodies and our minds.
15. The abstraction of doing into labour is a process of
personification, the creation of character masks, the formation of
the working class.
16. The abstraction of doing into labour is the creation of the
male labourer and the dimorphisation of sexuality.
17. The abstraction of doing into labour is the constitution of
nature as object.
18. The abstraction of doing into labour is the externalisation of
our power –to-do and the creation of the citizen, politics and the
state.
19. The abstraction of doing into labour is the homogenisation of
time.
20. The abstraction of doing into labour is the creation of
totality.
21. Abstract labour rules: The abstraction of doing into labour is
the creation of a cohesive law-bound totality sustained by the
exploitation of labour.
22. The labour movement is the movement of abstract labour.
Part VI The Crisis of Abstract Labour
23. Abstraction is not just a past but also a present process.
24. Concrete doing overflows from abstract labour: it exists
in-against-and-beyond abstract labour.
25. Doing is the crisis of abstract labour
26. The breakthrough of doing against labour throws us into a new
world of struggle.
Part VII Doing against Labour: the melodies of interstitial
revolution
27. Doing dissolves totality, synthesis, value.
28. Doing is the moving of the mulier abscondita against character
masks. We are the mulier abscondita.
29. Doing dissolves the homogenisation of time.
Part VIII A Time of Birth?
30. We are the forces of production: our power is the power of
doing.
31. We are the crisis of capitalism, the misfitting-overflowing of
our power-to-do, the breakthrough of another world, perhaps.
32. Stop Making Capitalism
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John Holloway has published widely on Marxist theory, on the Zapatista movement and on the new forms of anti-capitalist struggle. His book Change the World without Taking Power has been translated into eleven languages and has stirred an international debate, and Crack Capitalism is a renowned classic. He is currently Professor of Sociology in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico.
'Infectiously optimistic'
*Steven Poole, the Guardian*
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