Holloway - Crack Capitalism.pdf - Libcom

There is no single correct answer, but this does not mean that
all these struggles are atomised. There is a resonance between
them, a mutual recognition as being part of a moving againstand-beyond,
a constant sharing of ideas and information.3 The
No shared by the many yeses is a practical connection, the
constant weaving of a We, the shaping of a common flow of
doing and rebellion. This shared resonance does not mean that
we all agree: on the contrary, disagreement and discussion are
crucial in the formation of the resonating We.
There is never any purity in these experiments, thank
goodness. All are contradictory. The dedicated revolutionary
who abandons his children to go and fight for the great cause,
the indigenous organisation that accepts funds from a church
dedicated to subordination and misogyny, the radical professor
who participates in the quantitative measurement of students'
work, the cooperative that sells its products on the market, the
car worker who spends most of his time producing objects that
kill and contaminate and then organises a community garden in
the evenings and at weekends, the student who organises demonstrations
but does not question the categories of the subject she
is studying: all, all are self-contradictory, we are all involved in
the re-creation of the social relations we are trying to overcome.
It cannot be otherwise in a capitalist society. The movement of
doing is not a pure movement, but a moving in-against-andbeyond
labour. There is no purity here: we try to overcome the
contradictions, we rebel against our own complicity, we try in
every way to stop making capitalism, we try to direct the flow
of our lives as effectively as possible towards the creation of
a society based on dignity. We are part of the social flow of
rebellion,4 and in this flow there is no room for rigidities and hard
lines. The concepts of correctness and betrayal, its complement
that is so rooted in the culture of the left, are obstacles to the
flow of rebellion. To create rigidities and dogmas and 'we do
not talk to them because they are reformists' and 'we will have
nothing to do with them because they drink coca cola' and
'we will not cooperate with them because they are sectarian',
is to take an active part in the freezing of the flow of rebellion,
to reproduce the definitions and classifications and fetishes of
capitalist thought.
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