Holloway suggests Marxists have not analysed what the consequences of abolishing abstract and alienated labour would be. These arguments deserve to be taken seriously, but are undermined by a series of conceptual leaps which lead to problematic conclusions.
Holloway ends up arguing against the existing labour movement in a way that appears deeply sectarian. Similarly, he has a tendency to dismiss Leninism on the basis of caricatures and stereotypes. This book will doubtless spark new debates and reignite some old ones about the way forward for movements that want to challenge capitalism. These are debates socialists will have to be part of, arguing for our own vision of how to build an alternative.
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Help fund the resistance. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. My Best Friend has some great ideas and I love him so much for the attempt, but he still fails because he too doesn't have the answers.
Like so many others who wish for a better world he believes moving backwards into time to a period they particularly liked is the answer. He simultaneously plays the nice baseball coach of social activism handing out trophies to all those looser kids saying "dont worry, you're all winners because you tried. Lowering your expectations is just embarassing and doesnt build confidence anyway.
You cant stop this moving train, all you can do is derail it. And before we collectively take that big leap jeopardizing all our lives in an effort to stop flying into that inevitable wall down the line, we need to know where we are hoping to fall instead. Socialism failed. Communism doesn't work. Give me something else God Damnit! Apr 28, M. Gilliland rated it it was ok. Well so far I've only read some extracts on Ebrary, I gave it 4 stars initially but would reduce that to 2, the later chapters seemed to waffle and his idea of updating Marxism seems to be inventing lots of new jargon.
My preliminary view is that the value of the book is that it points to revolution without taking power, as in his more famous 1st book. No clues however as to how this could happen, but it's true most of our activity is outside capitalism and in many societies it has never worked Well so far I've only read some extracts on Ebrary, I gave it 4 stars initially but would reduce that to 2, the later chapters seemed to waffle and his idea of updating Marxism seems to be inventing lots of new jargon.
No clues however as to how this could happen, but it's true most of our activity is outside capitalism and in many societies it has never worked , eg. When I read more I'll comment again. Another plus is it's translated into Spanish and Italian.. Like many would-be western gurus he tries to appropriate the Zapatista struggle, but maybe he's respectful, hope to read that part next. What difference do cracks make in what's always been a chaotic predator market?
View 1 comment. Jun 25, Inna rated it really liked it. Pretty good book on what to do about capitalism. The author points out that capitalism is upheld by human action and by human perceptions. As such, it has to have weaknesses, places where it might and does crack. Because capitalism imposes on human being a logic that cannot possibly work - logic according to which all human actions should serve a total system of the market.
I liked the analysis, though I would expect a bit more on how the dialectics of change might work. Though the author s Pretty good book on what to do about capitalism. Though the author states clearly that he does not know, he just points out to weaknesses within the system. He also points out that totalizing ideologies cannot work, since they operate according to logic which is too similar to the capitalist one. The book is somewhat repetitive, but it seems the author chose it to be so to emphasize his points.
May 30, Rui Coelho rated it it was amazing Shelves: hall-of-fame. Great book! Even better than his "Changing the World Without Taking Power", "Crack Capitalism" puts out the basis for a new and very Foucauldian understanding of everyday politics under capitalist social relations. Sep 07, Tom Guimberteau rated it really liked it. Life changing. May 10, Andrew Novak rated it really liked it. Marx is being made useful again Jul 29, Scott Neigh added it.
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Nothing more simple. Nothing more difficult. Our method is the method of the crack. It is time to learn the new language of a new struggle. The cracks begin with a No, from which there grows a dignity, a negation-and-creation.
A crack is the perfectly ordinary creation of a space or moment in which we assert a different type of doing. Cracks break dimensions, break dimensionality. Cracks are explorations in an anti-politics of dignity. Dignity is our weapon against a world of destruction. Cracks clash with the social synthesis of capitalism.
Cracks exist on the edge of impossibility, but they do exist. Moving they exist: dignity is a fleet-footed dance. The state may be the adequate form for bringing about change on behalf of the people, but it cannot be the organisational form of change by the people, and that is what a real break with capitalism requires. How has the lived-experience of Latin America impacted your work? I moved to Mexico three years before the Zapatista uprising and I think that for me, as for many others, the uprising was like a flash of lightning that made things fall into place, that gave a new sense and force to what I had been feeling and thinking already.
It was the great Zapatista announcement that here was a new way of organising against capitalism, of talking against capitalism, a new grammar of anti-capitalist revolution. And of course the constant interaction with colleagues and students who are immersed in memories of revolutionary struggle and in trying to find new ways forward.
It is often horrifying, but always an extremely stimulating place to live and think. Do you think there is a conflict of interest between social movements and political parties? Is the electoral victory of left parties impacting negatively on the grassroots social movements? Left-wing parties include all sorts of people who are there because they genuinely want to change things.
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