Holloway - Crack Capitalism.pdf - Libcom

step in the learning and formation of thi langu;lg ': thnt is Illy
highest ambition, that is the wager of this boole
The learning of a new language is a h sitGnt pro' 'SS, :111
asking-we-walk, an attempt to create open qu 'srioll- 'OIIt' ·pts
rather than to lay down a paradigm for the und rst', ndin" or t h '
present stage of capitalism.s This book is arra ng din th 'S 'S, ':1 ·h
one being a question framed as a challenge, a provo ation, ,,'h ·St·
theses can be seen as a series of dares, in which I ehall 't1g' you ,
gentle reader, to follow me to the next point in th Ul'gll lll'IIt.
At times I feel the book is a train journey in which I do my hest
to push readers off at each stop: if all the steps in th a rgll 111 'lit
are accepted, then perhaps I shall not have pushed hard t10Ilgh.
In all this there is an anxiety, a doubt, a danger: wh 11 w'
strain to see something we barely see, to hear someth ing W'
can scarcely discern, it may be that we are sharpening our y s
and our ears, or it may be simply that we are fantasising, that
that which we can scarcely see and hear really does not exist,
that it is simply the product of our wishful thinking. Perhaps,
but we need to act, to do something, to break the terror of
our headlong rush towards destruction. Asking we walk, but
walking, not standing still, is how we develop our question .
Better to step out in what may be the wrong direction and to
go creating the path, rather than stay and pore over a map that
does not exist. So let us hold our fears and doubts in one hand
and look at the source of hope, the million attempts to break
with the logic of destruction.
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