Crack Capitalism

by Holloway, John

• ISBN13: 9780745330082
• ISBN10: 0745330088
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-15
• Publisher: UCP

Summary

John Holloway's acclaimed book, Change the World Without Taking Power, sparked a world-wide debate about the most effective methods of going beyond capitalism. Now Holloway takes the debate further, arguing that hope lies in the fact that capitalism is already badly cracked, full of ruptures in the logic of social cohesion. Can these cracks really break the system? Holloway suggests that the force of the cracks lies in their common drive against capitalist labour and towards a different type of activity, doing what we consider necessary or desirable. The question of revolution is not how to destroy capitalism, but how to stop creating it and do something sensible instead.

Author Biography

John Holloway is a Professor in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades of the Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla in Mexico. He is the author of Change the World Without Taking Power (Pluto Press, 3rd edition, 2010), and co-editor of Zapatista!Rethinking Revolution in Mexico (Pluto Press, 1998) and Global Capital National State and The Politics of Money (1994).

Table of Contents

Break
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	p. 3
Our method is the method of the crack	p. 8
It is time to learn the new language of a new struggle	p. 10
Cracks: The Anti-Politics of Dignity
The cracks begin with a No, from which there grows a dignity, a negation-and-creation	p. 17
A crack is the perfectly ordinary creation of a space or moment in which we assert a different type of doing	p. 21
Cracks break dimensions, break dimensionality	p. 27
Cracks are explorations in an anti-politics of dignity	p. 38
Cracks on the Edge of Impossibility
Dignity is our weapon against a world of destruction	p. 49
Cracks clash with the social synthesis of capitalism	p. 51
Cracks exist on the edge of impossibility, but they do exist. Moving they exist: dignity is a fleet-footed dance	p. 71
The Dual Character of Labour
The cracks are the revolt of one form of doing against another: the revolt of doing against labour	p. 83
The abstraction of doing into labour is the weaving of capitalism	p. 87
The abstraction of doing into labour is a historical process of transformation that created the social synthesis of capitalism: primitive accumulation	p. 100
Abstract Labour: The Great Enclosure
Abstract labour encloses both our bodies and our minds	p. 109
The abstraction of doing into labour is a process of personification, the creation of character masks, the formation of the working class	p. 114
The abstraction of doing into labour is the creation of the male labourer and the dimorphisation of sexuality	p. 119
The abstraction of doing into labour is the constitution of nature as object	p. 125
The abstraction of doing into labour is the externalisation of our power-to-do and the creation of the citizen, politics and the state	p. 130
The abstraction of doing into labour is the homogenisation of time	p. 135
The abstraction of doing into labour is the creation of totality	p. 141
Abstract labour rules: the abstraction of doing into labour is the creation of a cohesive law-bound totality sustained by the exploitation of labour	p. 145
The labour movement is the movement of abstract labour	p. 151
The Crisis of Abstract Labour
Abstraction is not just a past but also a present process	p. 165
Concrete doing overflows from abstract labour: it exists in-against-and-beyond abstract labour	p. 172
Doing is the crisis of abstract labour	p. 178
The breakthrough of doing against labour throws us into a new world of struggle	p. 197
Doing Against Labour: The Melodies of Interstitial Revolution
Doing dissolves totality, synthesis, value	p. 203
Doing is the moving of the mulier abscondita against character masks. We are the mulier abscondita	p. 212
Doing dissolves the homogenisation of time	p. 227
A Time of Birth?
We are the forces of production: our power is the power of doing	p. 245
We are the crisis of capitalism, the misfitting-overflowing of our power-to-do, the breakthrough of another world, perhaps	p. 250
Stop making capitalism	p. 253
	p. 262
thanks	p. 263
Notes	p. 265
Bibliography	p. 287
Author Index	p. 299
Subject Index	p. 302
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