To Lead by Obeying : The Political Lessons of Mexican Neo-Zapatismo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aguirre Rojas, Carlos Antonio.

Series:

Latin America Series

Latin America Series ; v.40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aguirre.

Anticapitalism.

Antisystemic Movements.

Antonio.

Carlos.

Crisis of Capitalism.

Johanna.

Lead.

Lessons.

Lüder.

Mexican.

New Social Movements in Latin America.

Obeying.

Political.

Rojas.

Zapatismo.

Chiapas (Mexico)--History--Peasant Uprising, 1994-.

Chiapas (Mexico).

Chiapas (Mexico)--History--Autonomy and independence movements.

Mexico--Politics and government--1810-.

Mexico.

Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional (Mexico).

Local Subjects:

Aguirre.

Anticapitalism.

Antisystemic Movements.

Antonio.

Carlos.

Crisis of Capitalism.

Johanna.

Lead.

Lessons.

Lüder.

Mexican.

New Social Movements in Latin America.

Obeying.

Political.

Rojas.

Zapatismo.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang Publishing, Incorporated, 2024.

Summary:

This book presents the main political lessons of the Mexican movement of Neozapatismo. The book presents also how the Neozapatismo embodies a real project of an alternative modernity, in front of the decadent and destructive capitalist modernity, still dominant all over the world.

Contents:

Cover

HalfTitle

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Epigraph

Contents

Preface to the English Edition

By Way of Introduction: When the Imagination Takes Power

An Ordinary and Extraordinary Experience: The First Gathering of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World

Resituating the Event in Historical Perspective

·1· Leading by Obeying: Popular Self-Government, Political Autonomy, and Integral Global Autonomy

Defending Autonomy as Integral Global Autonomy

The Logic of Leading by Obeying

The Mechanisms and Implications of Leading by Obeying

The Principles of Excercising a Very Other Government

·2· The Death of the Human Activity of Politics: The Other Politics and the Other Democracy

The Other Politics in the Context of the Death of Politics

Deconstructing and Unthinking Limited Formal Democracy: The Other Democracy

·3· Mexican Neo-Zapatismo, Heir to the World Cultural Revolution of 1968

When Being Realistic Means Demanding the Impossible

Because Even Today, "We want everything, right away!"

·4· The Mexican Neo-Zapatista Movement and the Transition from a Modernity of Resistance to an Alternative Modernity

The Multiple Modernities of "Modernity"

The Other Economy: Mother Earth, Collective Labor, and Equitable Distribution

Laying the Foundations for an Other Society: A Truly Anti-capitalist Feminism and a Holistic and Anti-commodifying View of Health

The Other Culture: The Recuperation and Reappraisal of Deep Popular Knowledge

A Conclusion That Questions Instead of Concluding

Appendix 1 Building Counter-Power from Below and to the Left (or, How to Change the World by Revolutionizing Power from Below Power)

Changing the World by Revolutionizing Power

Returning to the 'Power' of the Classics.

On the Omnipotent Weakness of the State and Political Power

From Below and to the Left

Appendix 2 The Zapatista Gaze: Looking (to and from) Below and to the Left

The Gaze That Sees Farther

The Gaze That Illuminates What Is Missing, What Is Incomplete

Now We Can See the Horizon!15

Appendix 3 The New Stage of Mexican Neo-Zapatismo

Appendix 4 The Little Zapatista School: Living the Struggle for Autonomy from Within

On the Way to School

Hurrying to Get There

With Books Under Their Arm

The Whole World Goes Out to Struggle

Appendix 5 The (Symbolic) Death of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos and the Collective Neo-Zapatista 'we'

The Neo-Zapatista Expectation of an Unexpected Death

Despairing Over the Extreme Authoritarianism of the "New" PRI

Hopes and Expectations of the New Stage of Neo-Zapatismo

Building the Collective Neo-Zapatista 'We'

Appendix 6 Mexican Neo-Zapatismo and Its Impact within Contemporary Social Sciences: Six Theses to Develop

Appendix 7 Mexican Neo-Zapatismo's Contribution to the Development of Contemporary Critical Thought

Appendix 8 Neo-Zapatista Discoveries: Birthing the New World from Below, Knowing Arts, Creating Sciences

Introduction

Revolutionizing the Forms of Making the Revolution

Art and Science for Birthing the New Non-capitalist World from Below

Appendix 9 Mexico and Mexican Neo-Zapatismo in Times of COVID-19

Works Cited

Glossary

Translator's Note.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4331-9674-3

1-4331-9673-5

OCLC:

1422229922