Summary Of The Other Campaign
The Other Campaign was announced in the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandón Jungle in July of 2005. The declaration clearly shows the shift back into more class-based, economic rhetoric. The anticapitalist and anti-globalization sentiments are felt throughout the piece. The second section of the piece details the Zapatistas’ view on the world has a section that reflects these feelings and the need for the Other Campaign very clearly. Marcos writes:
From the passage above it is clear that Marcos and the EZLN shifted back discussing issues in economic terms. He refers to the world as a big business and the people and resources as merchandise. There is still traces of the ‘us vs. them’ dichotomy as he talks about the United State and countries like …show more content…
Many of the Zapatistas’ beliefs, especially in the beginning fell under Marxism. However, the EZLN has sad that their beliefs are solely their own. Much of the issues that the Zapatistas’ had with identifying with Marxism is that they felt that the indigenous struggle was not adequately represented by any of these ideologies. In one interview Marcos was asked about this idea that Marxism is connected to discrimination against indigenous people (“Zapatistas! Documents of the New Mexican Revolution” 294). In response Marcos said, “We arrived here and we were confronted by this reality, the Indigenous reality, and it continues to control us. Ultimately the theoretical confronted the practical, and something happened--the result was the EZLN” (“Zapatistas! Documents of the New Mexican Revolution” 294). Marcos sums it up the best in those sentences. The indigenous rights struggle that the EZLN took on as the driving force of their movement made them different from previous social movements that dominated Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s. There was also the issue of theory versus reality. Again, Marcos touches on this in his answer, that there is a difference between theories and applying them to the real life situations. The situation in Chiapas was different than movements before it because of a variety of reasons including the context of the situation and the issues that the Zapatista’s were fighting to
From the passage above it is clear that Marcos and the EZLN shifted back discussing issues in economic terms. He refers to the world as a big business and the people and resources as merchandise. There is still traces of the ‘us vs. them’ dichotomy as he talks about the United State and countries like …show more content…
Many of the Zapatistas’ beliefs, especially in the beginning fell under Marxism. However, the EZLN has sad that their beliefs are solely their own. Much of the issues that the Zapatistas’ had with identifying with Marxism is that they felt that the indigenous struggle was not adequately represented by any of these ideologies. In one interview Marcos was asked about this idea that Marxism is connected to discrimination against indigenous people (“Zapatistas! Documents of the New Mexican Revolution” 294). In response Marcos said, “We arrived here and we were confronted by this reality, the Indigenous reality, and it continues to control us. Ultimately the theoretical confronted the practical, and something happened--the result was the EZLN” (“Zapatistas! Documents of the New Mexican Revolution” 294). Marcos sums it up the best in those sentences. The indigenous rights struggle that the EZLN took on as the driving force of their movement made them different from previous social movements that dominated Latin America in the 1960s and 1970s. There was also the issue of theory versus reality. Again, Marcos touches on this in his answer, that there is a difference between theories and applying them to the real life situations. The situation in Chiapas was different than movements before it because of a variety of reasons including the context of the situation and the issues that the Zapatista’s were fighting to