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DESCRIPTION:CrimethInc. Presents: Capitalism and Resistance in the 21st Century\n\nA 
 discussion drawing on our new book, 'Work'\n\nAfter so much technological 
 progress, why do we have to work more than ever before? Why does the old 
 labor movement seem to be powerless to stop the new assault on workers? Can 
 capitalism survive another century of crises? And how do we get out of this 
 mess?\n\n\nPlease join us for a high-energy discussion of these questions 
 and more.  We'll be discussing contemporary capitalism and resistance, both 
 to demystify the former and strategize for the latter. We will examine the 
 historical foundation of our current situation, but also delve into the 
 global upheavals of the past year, drawing on first-hand reports and 
 participation.\n\n\n'Work' is the combined effort of a group of people who 
 have already spent many years in pitched struggle against capitalism. Some 
 of us used to be students or pizza deliverers or dishwashers; others still 
 are construction workers or graphic designers or civic-minded criminals. 
 But all of us have lived under capitalism since we were born, and that 
 makes us experts on it. No one has to have a degree in economics to 
 understand what's happening: it's enough to get a paycheck or a pink slip 
 and /pay attention/. We're suspicious of the experts who get their 
 credentials from on high, who have incentives to minimize things that are 
 obvious to everyone else.\n\n\nFor years, CrimethInc. ex-Workers have 
 occupied the marginalized and precarious economic position that is now 
 coming to characterize the entire US working class/. /Consequently, we have 
 occupied ourselves with the project of elaborating what a radical response 
 to exclusion from the workplace might look like. We believe that, In an age 
 of precarity, sustainable struggles must be based outside our positions 
 within the economy, which we can lose at any time. That is to say, the only 
 politics with any future is a politics grounded in outside 
 agitation.\n\n\nWho is more entitled to occupy a school than those who can 
 no longer afford to attend it? Who is more entitled to occupy a factory 
 than those who cannot find work within it? Capitalism is not just in 
 crisis—even at its best, it is incapable of fulfilling our needs. We must 
 all become outside agitators if we are to make our way to a better 
 world.\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/13/18702691.php
SUMMARY:Capitalism and Resistance in the 21st Century
LOCATION:SubRosa\n703 Pacific Ave\nSanta Cruz
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/12/13/18702691.php
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