Guardian on Crack Capitalism

[sawyl]

I've finally noticed that John Holloway's Crack Capitalism was one of Steven Poole's non-fiction choices in yesterday's Guardian Review. Although I couldn't quite work out whether the review was positive or negative, I rather liked some of the examples it cited:

...because nouns ("car", "wall", "food") hide the activity that gave rise to them, "anti-capitalist literature should abandon nouns and just use verbs". The author hastens to add: "but that would be very difficult to write and probably difficult to understand." That "probably" is infectiously optimistic, much like the suggestion that we should use a car "as a receptacle for planting flowers or carrots".

Perhaps I'll see if I can mooch a copy from someone.