Holloway - Crack Capitalism.pdf - Libcom

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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.
Break. We want to break. We want to break the worl I a it
is. A world of injustice, of war, of violence, of discriminati on,
of Gaza and Guantanamo. A world of billionaires and a
billion people who live and die in hunger. A world in which
humanity is annihilating itself, massacring non-human forms
of life, destroying the conditions of its own existence. A world
ruled by money, ruled by capital. A world of frustration, of
wasted potential.
We want to create a different world. We protest, of course
we protest. We protest against the war, we protest against th
growing use of torture in the world, we protest against th
turning of all life into a commodity to be bought and sold, we
protest against the inhuman treatment of migrants, we protest
against the destruction of the world in the interests of profit.
We protest and we do more. We do and we must. If we only
protest, we allow the powerful to set the agenda. If all we do
is oppose what they are trying to do, then we simply follow
in their footsteps. Breaking means that we do more than that,
that we seize the initiative, that we set the agenda. We negate,
but out of our negation grows a creation, an other-doing, an
activity that is not determined by money, an activity that is not
shaped by the rules of power. Often the alternative doing grows
out of necessity: the functioning of the capitalist market does
not allow us to survive and we need to find other ways to live,
forms of solidarity and cooperation. Often too it comes from
choice: we refuse to submit our lives to the rule of money, we
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