The 80 Percent: Without Strategies and Confused
Raúl Zibechi diagnoses the failure to unite the huddled masses, notably focusing on the limitations and contradictions amongst his own “dissident group”
Raúl Zibechi diagnoses the failure to unite the huddled masses, notably focusing on the limitations and contradictions amongst his own “dissident group”
Is Zapatismo one more great answer, one more answer, to the world’s problems?
No. Zapatismo is a bunch of questions. And the smallest may be the most disturbing: What about you?
As the planet’s richest look to technology to “Jump Ship,” the Zapatista Voyage for Life is a committment to stay. If, in the discovery of America, we find the beginnings of capitalism, this voyage, in the opposite sense of the one made more than 500 years ago, will help to connect the struggles for life, those that build worlds with peace, justice, dignity, freedom and democracy. In the old world the horizon is now in sight.
Magdalena Gómez points to the historical precedents of the Zapatista tour in their previous initiatives, their catalyzing forces and effects. What impact, then, might the maritime delegation have in their voyage to visit old acquaintances?
Raul Romero emphasizes the value of holding up utopia to envision and build the world we do want.