Zapatista Movement

Submitted by __deleted_____ at October 17, 2017 at 11:41 AM in Anarchism (edited at October 17, 2017 at 12:21 PM)

_________deleted wrote at October 17, 2017 at 12:21 PM

Anarchism is a peculiar European development of Ideology which rejects hierarchy and the violence that is inherent to it. The Zapatistas are not Anarchists because Anarchism never really enter the minds of the Mayan people.

I think don't think anarchy is euro-centric, in its most basic form, without all the adjectives people keep adding to it, it just means an absence of rulers, and the Zapatistas completely qualify as anarchic.

TheNewKing wrote at October 18, 2017 at 1:54 AM

What Peter Gelderloos has to say on the topic: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works#toc4

I think it's mostly semantics, but I think there's also some value in your and Gelderloos's arguments.