Holloway - Crack Capitalism.pdf - Libcom

own responsibilities, reappropriating our own lives, pushing
aside the capital that is the constant expropriation not just of our
products but of our doing and thinking and deciding and living.
Set the agenda: Doing it ourselves mean that we set the
agenda. Too often we think of anti-capitalism as protesting
against the latest barbarities of the system. We march against
the war, we protest against the G8, we demonstrate for the
release of political prisoners, we picket the Peruvian embassy to
stop the killing of the indigenous defenders of the Amazonian
jungle. All this is very necessary, but it allows capital to set the
agenda to determine the rhythms. The revolt of doing against
labour is not just a defence against the horrors of capitalism, but
it means taking the initiative and creating now the anticipations
of another world. Let them run after us instead of us running
after them. We occupy a vacant plot of land and create a garden.
We make a social centre as a focus of anti-capitalist resistance
in our area. We insist as students that the question of stopping
the self-destruction of humanity be discussed in our classes.
We occupy six towns and say Enough! We set up a community
radio station. i Ya basta! We ask no permission and we make
no demands. We do.
We build another world: We get on with it, here and now.
There is a shift in focus here. The spectacular events, the
anti-summits and the social forums, are important, but they are
important not for what they might achieve in terms of changing
government policies but above all as points of confluence of the
different movements: spaces in which we learn from one another
and inspire one another. Most important of all is the less visible
movement of refusal and creation. This is not a question of local
versus global or micro versus macro, it is rather a question of
understanding that the strength of the social flow of rebellion
depends finally on our ability to reappropriate (or avoid the
expropriation of) the social flow of doing. The big events are
important, but they cannot take the place of the constant search
for ways of doing against and beyond labour.
Do against labour: If there is to be a future for humanity,
we must live differently, we must act differently, we must relate
in a different way to one another and to the other forms of
life and the natural environment that surround us. We must
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