CRACK CAPITALISM

privacy of our studies), a dialogue rather than a monologue, an
asking-we-walk: not necessarily polite, at times a provocation,
but a provocation that opens, not one that lays down the law.
The admission that we do not know is both a principle of
knowledge and a principle of organisation that aims at the
participation of all in the process of determining our individual
and collective doing. Knowing would lead to a different organisational
structure, a structure of monologue with established
leaders and institutions to hold them in place.
We do not know, and yet there is a growing desperation:
what do we do? How do we stop creating capitalism? How do
we change the world? How do we stop this horrific destruction
that surrounds us?
There is no Right Answer, just millions of experiments:
There is no single correct answer to the desperate (and timehonoured)
question of what is to be done. Perhaps the best
answer that can be given is: 'Think for yourself and yourselves,
use your imagination, follow your inclinations and do whatever
you consider necessary or enjoyable, always with the motto of
against-and-beyond capital.' For some, this will mean throwing
themselves into the preparations for the next anti-G8 summit. For
others, it will mean trying to open up perspectives of at different
world for the children they teach in school. Others will join with
their neighbours to create a community garden, or take part
in the activities of the nearby social centre. Some will dedicate
all their energies to organising opposition to the extension of a
motorway that threatens the livelihood of thousands of peasants,
some will devote themselves to permaculture or creating free
software, others will just play with their children and friends, or
write a book on how to change the world. All of these are cries
of hope, projections towards a different way of living, attempts
to do something better with our lives than creating capitalism.
They may not all have an equal impact, but fortunately we
have no standard by which to measure them. Who is to say that
forming part of the so-called Black Block in an anti-G8 summit
is more or less effective a means of struggle than creating a
garden as a means of fighting against the massacre by humans
of other forms of life ?
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