CRACK CAPITALISM

Part III Cracks on the Edge of Impo

.I",ellda. Dignity consists in sett

Cilinpns ill an organised way, has

2. CRACKS CLASH WITH THE STATE. 'l'

of social relations. Seizing the in

constantly subjected to question):

Cuba has the lowest rate of infant

as Porto Alegre, Venice, East Manch

and racist habits reappear. Within

social cohesion, but in fact the st

commodities on the market. It may p

activities. If I say 'No, I will no

And yet it is not so. The world is

The lines of continuity are the lin

cation of non-identity, but non-ide

confluence of our dignities is impo

Part IV The Dual Character of Labou

to trying to live in a way that doe

for a radical reorganisation of our

this point, it has remained almost

characteristic of our cracks aspire

value is homogeneous labour, expend

The quality of our doing is intimat

depressing to write and should be d

it now as 'useful or concrete labou

13 The abstraction of doing into la

separation. Through the process of

Labour was imposed through the expa

Part Y Abstract Labour: The Great E

of one individual with that of the

The very concept of the individual

15 The abstraction of doing into la

We have a problem, then. How can we

only within, but also against-and-b

invoLve different sociaL reLations

The new sexual normality was undoub

own doing, our own creative power,

nature means simply that nature is

The enclosure of land is far from b

18 The abstraction of doing into la

'dull compulsion of economic relati

The state draws us on to a false te

different from the present, no futu

what they want to do. This is surel

history divided into periods that h

turn to some other activity. The so

form.3 This slippage from totality

We create a society that systematic

exploitation of labour by capital.

The second approach is to argue tha

and the point is not developed at a

We are forced back and back to the

doing into abstract labour, is an e

doing into abstract labour, is an e

of exploitation. Trade union strugg

of structural functionalism,10 dedi

Part VI The Crisis of Abstract Labo

clock-time, destruction of nature,

The abstraction of doing into labou

'lies in the specific function of m

24 Concrete doing overflows from ab

the abstraction of labour. Abstract

assume that there is no useful doin

assume that there is no useful doin

25 Doing is the crisis of abstract

capital', the progressive increase

the state, and so on). Full employm

compelling people to perform abstra

4. THE CRISIS OF ABSTRACT LABOUR IS

forms of social practice and, yet,

The central issue is that of the ex

useful doing completely subordinate

That this barrier would be reached

labour time. The unitary character

There is nothing unusual about stru

Far from being the voice of privile

27 Doing dissolves totality, synthe

In the first case, it is clearly va

not the case. The illusion of the s

elations of domination. The argumen

I low do cracks move? We do not kno

people forced into certain roles. W

In this case, the invisibility refe

socialist 'realists'. Lenin's answe

s/he does not solve it either, beca

against and beyond a particular for

:1 binary gender divide between men

eyond. It is the revolt of the crea

29 Doing dissolves the homogenisati

Let us take the argument more slowl

Criticism restores the subject to t

are social relations: the noun, lik

struggle against duration, is the s

structure of what it is [we] choose

hythm of our own choosing. Probably

7. DOING-TIME IS LIVING NOW THE WO

PartYll1 A Time of Birth?

technological development) which ha

up with its socialisation. The more

31 We are the crisis of capitalism,

learn better English, improve our c

emergence and growth of the fight a

privacy of our studies), a dialogue

We are ordinary people: If we think

develop a different doing. It is no

33 This is the story of many, many

Michael Kasenbacher, Marina Sitrin,

THESIS 4 1. The idea of a negation

13. La Jornada, 28 May 1994. Englis

11. This was written in an article

2. For a discussion of the impact o

7. See Postone (1996: 162): 'The st

THESIS 16 1. Note that the relation

2. See Thompson (1967: 56). 3. On t

labour, on the one hand, and a crit

7. On this, see, for example, Harvi

not count, we did not produce, we d

14. The Free Association, following

Bohm, Steffen, Ana Dinerstein and A

-- (2007b) 'APPOlogia', in Esteva e

-- and Antonio Negri (2000) Empire

Mamani Ramirez, Pablo (2005) Microg

Postone, Moishe (1996) Time, Labour

-- (2008b) 'La forma nacional-popul

Foucault, Michel 275, 278, 290 Free

Subject Index 1968 30, 35, 75, 147,

Mandar obedeciendo 44, 235 Major An