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Ironically the Mexican State surrounding them on all sides is the only thing preventing them being crushed, else they would be long gone, and they reject being associated with anarchism or communism, publicly denouncing vanguard parties or their support.
It will eventually collapse, they fail to provide even the most basic of infrastructure for themselves.
What are the collective farms, coffee plantations, schools, and armies then?
The smug eurocentrism here is palpable. This paternalist instinct to dismiss indigenous movements for not adhering to a brand of leftism and thus doomed to failure is really gross tbh.
Its a material fact. Mexico doesnt want to kill or erase indigenous movements and lets them do their thing, an Euro state or Anglos would have put them in a reservation or worse
And it was the indigenous movements under Zapatista in the first place that forced constitutional guarantees into the Mexican government for their benefit. But because indigenous movements in Mexico don’t conform to whatever eurocentric vision of self liberation and determination whether it be anarchist or ML, they must be doomed to failure because they’re dumb indians. Incredibly tiring.
I think people who downvote things they disagree with are nerds haha just so you know that I didn’t downvote you. I know they identify as explicitly Neozapatismo in philosophy, but various Zapatistas have talked about their influences and they borrow from all branches of marxism. They’re, basically, explicitly non-sectarian haha but I think it’s hard to argue they don’t lean pretty firmly towards anarchism
I also think it’s hard to argue they will inevitably collapse because they don’t provide for themselves. They’ve been running for decades and decades, and seemingly only gaining ground. But I’m admittedly not that familiar with the movement.
