Our misfitting is our overflowing, the overflowing of our creativity, our magnificent being-able-to. So get thee gone to the dustbin of history, capital, and let us get on with making the world anew

John Holloway, in Crack Capitalism (2010, p. 252)

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Capital, since the beginning, says to people, ‘your creativity is valid only within the bounds of value production: if you do not produce value, your creativity counts for nothing’.

John Holloway, in Crack Capitalism (2010, p. 247)

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At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or…with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters.

Marx, cited in Holloway (2010, p. 245)

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How to Make the Public Transport Free [PDF] →

Discovered this movement with a bit of Googling after finding it alluded to in John Holloway’s Crack Capitalism (2010, p. 241):

“P-kassan” – the freeriding insurance – is a cooperation between people in similar situations. We do not afford the fare or do not want to pay it. You pay a small amount to the fund and if you get caught freeriding your bill is payed. The idea of this insurance is not new. It has been tried before and for quite some time, especially by students in the university cities, and has worked well even though in a small scale. The difference is that we have a greater goal than just helping each other to freeride. We want free public transportation, owned by us together and controlled by the workers in it. (from Planka.nu)

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All social phenomena exist because we have made them: money or the state are just as much human products as the motor-car. They depend on our creation for their existence. And if we made them, we can change them.

in John Holloway’s Crack Capitalism (2010, p. 231)

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The argument is simple. We make capitalism: we must stop making it and do something else. This means setting doing against abstract labour: this we must, can and already do.

John Holloway, in Crack Capitalism (2010, p. 109)

LOLCats totally count.

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