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2 Systemic crisis or business as usual: Analyses of the current crisis oscillate between these two poles. But neither is capitalism as such in crisis, nor can the form of capitalist development of the past thirty years simply be carried on. The specific form of the transnational information technological mode of production and life under neoliberal hegemony has fallen into a structural or organic crisis. We are at the beginning of a new transformation of capitalism. The form it takes will be at issue in the struggle of the coming years. How, in view of the unfavourable power relations, is the goal of socialist transformation in the sense of Rosa Luxemburg’s concept of revolutionary pragmatism, to be pursued? In other words, “what is to be done? ” (Lenin) – and “who the hell is going to do it? ” (Harvey 2009)? Transformations as passive revolutions Nothing will stay the way it is. Transformation for the last 150 years has meant: a passive revolution of the modes of production and the respective modes of living. Following Anto-nio Gramsci, passive revolutions are one way to restore fragile power by revolutionizing all social relations – not only restoring order, but developing bourgeois, capitalist rule, by ac-tively pushing forward society (Gef. 1, p. 1021). The passive element is to integrate the in