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"All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear that we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
--James Baldwin, "The Fire Next Time"

Zapatismo: From Intuition to Practice

1. Global War

"The Fourth World War is destroying humanity as globalization is universalizing the market, and everything human which the logic of the market is an enemy and must be destroyed. In this sense, we are all the enemy to be vanquished: indigenous, non-indigenous, human rights observers, teachers, intellectuals, and artists. Anyone who believes themselves to be free and is not." (Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos)


Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

Seven Pieces of a Global Jigsaw Puzzle
Fourth World War
Seven Thoughts in May
Remember, Ideas are Weapons Too

Related Writings

Ana Esther Cecena: La guerra como razón del mundo que queremos transformar
Antonio Negri: The Order of War
Angel Luis Lara: La Guerra y los Banqueros
Angel Luis Lara: La Rebeldia en Tiempo de Guerra

 

2. Difference and Multiplicity

"...And they were wise. Not because they knew many things or because they knew a lot about any one thing, but because they understood that one and all are necessary and sufficient." (Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos)

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

The History of One and All
The History of the Others
In Self-Defense of the Giraffes / En Autodefensa de las Jirafas
The History of Colors (not available online)

Related Writings

Gilles Deleuze: Dualism, Monism, and Multiplicity
Antonio Negri: Toward an Ontological Definition of the Multitude
Colectivo Situaciones: Notas Para La Accion Politica

 

3. Autonomy and Assembly

"Neither the form nor time of struggle are for the exclusive use of any one social sector. Neither autonomy nor resistance are forms of organization and struggle which correspond only to the Indigenous peoples." (Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos)

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

The Inverted Periscope
Autonomous Municipalities and Good Government

Related Writings

Wu Ming: Zapatismo o Barbarie
Harry Cleaver: From Development to Autonomy
Gustavo Esteva: A Flower in the Hands of the People
Franco Berardi: What is the Meaning of Autonomy Today? Subjectivation, Social Composition, Refusal of Work

4. Network!

"We declare that we will make a collective network of all our particular struggles and resistences, and intercontinental network of resistance against neoliberalism, and intercontinental network for humanity. This intercontinental network of resistance will strive to find itself in other resistances around the world....This intercontinental network of resistance is not an organizing structure: it has no central head or decision-maker; it has no central command or hierarchies. We are the network, all of us who resist." (Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos)

Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos

Opening Remarks at the First Intercontinental Encuentro for Humanity and against Neoliberalism
Tomorrow Begins Today (Closing Remarks at the First Intercontinental Encuentro for Humanity and against Neolbieralism)
Second Declaration of La Realidad for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism

Related Writings

Colectivo Situaciones: From Communication to Silence
Harry Cleaver: Computer-linked Social Movements and the Global Threat to Capitalism
Colectivo Situaciones: Network of Alternative Resistance / Red de Resistencia Alternativa
Matteo Pasquinelli: From Utopia to Networks

Links

Zapatista Links:
EZLN
Revista Rebeldia

Chiapas Links:
CIEPAC
Indymedia Chiapas
Red de Defensores Comunitarios por los Derechos Humanos
Estacion Libre
Mexico Insurgente-La Otra Campaña

News Links:
La Jornada
Chiapas 95

 

 


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