CRACK CAPITALISM

7. See Graeber (2002): 'The result is a rich and growing panoply of
organizational instruments - spokescouncils, affinity groups, facilitation
tools, break-outs, fishbowls, blocking concerns, vi be-watchers and so on ­
all aimed at creating forms of democratic process that allow initiatives to
rise from below and attain maximum effective solidarity, without stifling
dissenting voices, creating leadership positions or compelling anyone to
do anything which they have not freely agreed to do.'
8. See the important book by the Trapese Collective (2007) on the
practicalities of doing it ourselves. See also the detailed accounts of the
many different experiments in living differently in Habermann (2009).
1.
THESIS 8
On the struggle in Oaxaca, see especially the series of articles by Gustavo
Esteva (2007a, 2007b, 2007d and 2009).
THESIS 9
1. See the good discussion of cracks and their difficulties in Pleyers (2010),
especially Chs 2 and 4.
2. On this, see Gutierrez Aguilar (2009).
3. The notion of social synthesis I take from Alfred Sohn-Rethel (1978), with
the difference that he applies it to all societies, whereas [ reserve it for the
particularly tightly knit social cohesion typical of capitalism. For a recent
discussion of Sohn-Rethel's use of the concept, see Reitter (2007).
4 A report can be found at