Holloway - Crack Capitalism.pdf - Libcom

they often possess an extraordinary energy and creativity, taking
us into new dimensions of understanding and perception.12
Cracks in the pavement: we are the weeds pushing through. In
a cold world, we are the sun shining on the ice, creating cracks
that can move with terrifying and unpredictable speed. Or not.
The old revolutionary certainties have gone. We can no longer
proclaim with confidence that our victory is inevitable. We accept
that we live in a world of uncertainty and confusion, but can
we find a way of understanding our uncertainty and confusion?
There is no certainty in history, but is there some way in which
we can understand the multiplication of cracks, or even the fact
that we are here talking about cracks, as part of a powerful
historical or anti-historical undercurrent? Can we understand
the cracks not just as an endless series of attacks on the social
synthesis of capitalism but as the crisis of that synthesis?
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