Holloway - Crack Capitalism.pdf - Libcom

history divided into periods that have a beginning and an end,
a history with a clear division between past, present and future.
This is the time of Progress, a time that runs forward along predetermined
tracks. This is real time, this is real history, but it is
not our time and it is not our history.7
This is the time of deferred gratification.8 The clock tells us that
th is is not the hour for standing in the street and gazing. If we
work hard during the hours of labour, then perhaps afterwards
we can allow ourselves the pleasure of gazing. In the meantime,
we must sacrifice our desires.9 Sacrifice now, enjoy later. But the
clock is above all the time of sacrifice now, of measured labour,
of labour that cannot be enjoyable simply because it is measured
by the clock. The deferred gratification is beyond the clock,
over the rainbow, pie to be eaten in the sky. This is the time of
Future Revolution: a logical absurdity because it is founded in
the abstract time of abstract labour.
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