Holloway - Crack Capitalism.pdf - Libcom

And yet it is not so. The world is full of misfittings, of people
who say 'we do not fit in, and we shall not fit in.' We have seen
the enormous cohesive force of capital: how, through the state,
through our own practices, above all through money, it draws
us back in to its logic, finds a way of slotting our rebellions into
the implacable jigsaw of the system. And yet, there they are,
everywhere, these pieces that simply do not fitin. Over and over
again, logic tells us that our rebellions are useless, that we must
submit, and yet there they are, all over the place, these insanities
that push towards a different world, these dignities that will not
wait until after the revolution.
And there they are, and so it is, and so it must be. So it must
be, because there is not only a logic of capital but an anti-logic of
humanity, of refusal, of movement in-against-and-beyond capital.
Rebellion is inseparable from obedience, misfitting from fitting.
We start from the momentum of rage and hope and creativity.
We try to break the constraints of the society that oppresses us, to
overflow the domination that suffocates us, to create something
else. It is not a question of purity, for any crack will reproduce
the cracked within it. It is a question of movement, of direction.
Movement is what matters. The possibility of the cracks is in
their moving.
Think of occupied factories or cooperatives, for example. In
isolation, the taking of a factory into workers' control is of
limited significance: all the pressures of the market will tend to
impose constraints that limit the extent to which the workers
can radically alter the nature of their activity within the factory
or enterprise. It is as part of a movement of struggle that the
occupation of the factory becomes important, because then it
becomes possible to open up new forms of relations with the
users of the products, so that work is not just for an anonymous
market but oriented towards the satisfaction of certain social
needs. The workers' occupation of the factory does not create
a stable non-capitalist space, but it may be a significant part
of a movement against capital and against the imposition of
capitalist discipline. The important thing is to understand this
present intensity, the factory occupation, as a moving and open
present, not as a closed, isolated instant. Workers take control
of the factory: that is important, irrespective of what happens
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