Book description
How can we rebel against the capitalist system? John Holloway argues that by creating, cracks, fractures and fissures that forge spaces of rebellion and disrupt the current economic order.
John Holloway, author of the groundbreaking Change the World Without Taking Power, sparked a world-wide debate among activists and scholars…
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2 authors picked Crack Capitalism as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
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…
From Paul's list on helping us save the city.
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…
From Vasilis' list on critical theory, fetishism, and irrationality.
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