Will I love Crack Capitalism?

I read this book after I spent a year living and volunteering with the Zapatista revolutionary movement in Chiapas Mexico.

John based a lot of the ideas in this book on the Zapatistas mainly because they help us rethink what the revolution means – as an open, joyful, and everyday process. What I learned from this book is that If we really want to change society, or indeed crack capitalism, we have to build examples in the here and now that show a different world is possible.

It is a reminder that the state cannot and will not use on… show more.

The book provides examples from everyday living regarding revolution in everyday life. It debunks the idea that since political power is exercised by the state we should focus our attention only on the state, during our effort to change the world. Its analysis puts ordinary people in the ‘game’ of democracy since it attempts to prove how they are complicit in the lack of democracy, bearing in mind that what really limits democracy is capital, the abstract labour we all produce while we only try to make a living. Consequently, ordinary people have more power than they think to change… show more.