Holloway - Crack Capitalism.pdf - Libcom

in the widespread disrespect for intellectual property rights in
music or software.
Doing is a torrent against all enclosure. Our power to do
things differently, our power to create a different world, is a flow
that exerts a growing force against the walls that hem us in, a
constant breaching of these walls. Capital runs around mending
these breaches (granting land reforms, redefining the norms of
sexuality, for example), but the flow of our power will not be
contained, simply because our collective life depends upon it.
Break the walls, then. Break the walls around the land, reverse
the land enclosure that started the disaster that is capitalism,
create the basis for an overcoming of the separation between
city and country, between humans and other forms of life. Break
the walls around our sexuality so that we can enjoy our bodies
to the full. Break the walls constituted by states, which have
caused the killing of millions and millions of people in the wars
of the last century and the misery of more and more migrants
today. Break the walls of the prisons that, by imprisoning so
many, imprison us all. Break the walls around our thinking, the
rigidification of thought that arises from abstract labour and is
reinforced in schools and universities. Break the walls by which
nouns enclose the powerful dynamic of verbs. Break the walls
around our doing by refusing all expropriation of the means
of doing, means of producing, means of living. Break the walls
whenever and wherever we can. Break the walls by refusing to
build them.
Crack capitalism: Fight from the particular, fight from where
we are, here and now. Create spaces or moments of otherness,
spaces or moments that walk in the opposite direction, that
do not fit in. Make holes in our own reiterative creating of
capitalism. Create cracks and let them expand, let them multiply,
let them resonate, let them flow together. Create dimensions in
which we serve no more and behold the Tyrant-capital, 'like a
great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his
own weight and break in pieces'.
Refuse-and-create! Refuse-and-create! That, for us, is Moses
and the Prophets. Except that we have no Moses, we have no
prophets, just ourselves.
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