CRACK CAPITALISM

!It'l'illlPS think of these refusals of capitalism as a fast-moving
I iI" idos 'OJ) • of in llbordination in which it makes little sense
to "stahlish cI ar distinctions.
'I'h ' . '11 tra I issue is the cOllnterposing of a distinctly different
logi ' h 'rC and now to the logic of capitalism. There is nothing
IIll(lSlIal in this: it is part of everyday life. It is the anti-logic of
wh;1t w think of as humanity, of decency, of dignity; even in the
11lost ha rmless-looking examples, there is always an underlying
insubordination or non-subordination. Dignity will not wait:
lhc crack is a here-and-now insubordination, not a project
for the future. It is not 'after the revolution, our lives will not
b ubordinated to capital', but 'here and now, we refuse to
subordinate our activity to the rule of capital: we can and will
and are doing something else.' There is a shift in the temporality
of rebellion. In all sorts of ways, the urgency of the situation of
humanity imprints itself on the way that people struggle. The
old notion of planning for the future revolution sounds hollow
when we know that there may be only a very limited future.
ommunism (or whatever we choose to call it)lO becomes an
immediate necessity, not a future stage of development.
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