Zapatista Movement
Submitted by __deleted_____ in Anarchism (edited )
Submitted by __deleted_____ in Anarchism (edited )
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.
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.
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