Holloway - Crack Capitalism.pdf - Libcom

Latency: that is the stuff of revolution.4
Latency is a constant theme in the literature on revolution
and the revolutionary subject. Under the identitarian notions
of the subject runs a darker, deeper stream. The Zapatistas
don balaclavas to draw attention to their invisibility: theirs is
the movement of the invisible and inaudible, of those without
face and without voice. They are 'the guardians of the night,
the watchmen of the shadow' (Subcomandante Marcos, La
Jornada, 9 April 2006). Major Ana Marfa, in her speech to the
'Intergalactic' meeting of 1996, describes the EZLN:
The voice that arms itself to make itself heard. The face that hides itself
to show itself. The name that is silent in order to be named. The red star
that calls to people and to the world that they should listen, that they
should see, that they should name. The tomorrow that is harvested in
the yesterday. Behind our black face. Behind our armed voice. Behind
our unnameable name. Behind the us that you see. Behind are the we
that are you 5
In the women's movement too, the question of invisibility is
central. An important part of the struggle is against the invisibility
of women - their invisibility in the historical past and in the
daily practice of the present - or, indeed their visibility only
as objects of men's desire, but not as subjects, not as people.
Revolt is always revolt against invisibility: not necessarily against
total invisibility, but against invisibility as people, as subjects,
as doers. Thus, even revolts in prisons, where the inmates are
highly visible, but only as objects, can be seen as revolts against
their invisibility as people.6
Marx, in Capital, introduces the question of class in terms
of invisibility. In order to understand the relation between Mr
Moneybags and the seller of labour power as an antagonistic,
class relation, we 'take leave for a time of this noisy sphere [of
circulation] , where everything takes place on the surface and
in view of all men, and follow them into the hidden abode of
production, on whose threshold there stares us in the face "No
admittance except on business'" (186711965: 176; 186711990:
280). It is to the hidden sphere of production that we must go
to 'force the secret of profit making'.
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