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THESIS 4
1. The idea of a negation of the negation with creative force is sometimes
referred to as the 'second negation': see Dunayevskaya (2002).
2. See the significant title of the book by La Vaca (2004) on the experiences
of different occupied factories in Argentina: Sin Patron ('without boss').
3. If the examples cited are drawn disproportionately from Mexico and Latin
America, and from Europe, this is just because that is where I live and have
lived. It is clear, however, that similar examples can be found all over the
world. Perhaps the reader, wherever you live, should think of five (or a
hundred) other examples for every one mentioned here. For a much more
global selection of examples, see Notes from Nowhere (2003). An excellent
source for information about 'cracks' throughout the world is the Italian
journal, Carta.
4. This is the position at the time of writing (August 2009). On this, see SNTE
(2009). On aspects of the alternative education being developed in the Sierra
de Puebla, see Pieck Gochicoa, Messina Raimondi and Colectivo Docente
(2008).
s. On the notion of emancipatory space as threshold space, see Stavridis (2007
and 2009).
6. Lynching is a case in point: when the people of a town or village come
together to deal collectively and summarily with a perceived criminal, they
are explicitly rejecting a corrupt and inefficient judicial system and assuming
control of their own lives, yet the explosion of collective anger does not
in any obvious way create the basis for a better society. See Fuentes Diaz
(2006).
7. For a similar quest, see Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit (2004).
THESIS 5
1. For a picture of the wide range of cracks or autonomies or non-capitalist
practices, and on the growing literature on the subject, see, for example,
De Angelis (2007), Trapese (2007), Carlsson (2008) D. Solnit (2004),
Habermann (2009) and Bohm, Dinerstein and Spicer (2010).
2. On this, see Ghiotto (2005: 212-13).
3. See Salom (2009) and the other documents available at .
4. This is true of many of the examples discussed by Carlsson (2008). His
book is an extremely rich and stimulating source for the discussion of a wide
variety of cracks (or what he calls 'nowtopias') - from pirate programmers
to vacant-lot gardeners to outlaw bicyclists and beyond.
5. This point was made in the 2007 Anti-Summit in Rostock by Wangui
Mbatia of the Kenyan People's Parliament.
6. See especially Zibechi (2006 and 2008).
7. On this, see MTD de Solano and Colectivo Situaciones (2002), esp. 247££,
and Habermann (2004), Gordon and Chatterton (2004). See also the idea
of 'disobeying unemployment' developed by Reb6n (2004 and 2007). The
same transformation of the idea of unemployment is described by Flores
(2005) as a movement from guilt to self-determination.
S. On this movement, see Paoli (2002).
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