#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #SPAIN #ANARCHISM #LIBRARY #News #Journal #Update - (en) #Spain, apoyo mutuo, Colectividad #8: Lessons from Zapatismo - Prepared by compañeras (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 In this brief reflection on Zapatismo, there is barely room for a few

brushstrokes of the learning that they have given us. Their walk is also that of
the indigenous peoples, who did not allow themselves to be conquered, who still
resist, who know that they are part of us, of a common territory to inhabit, care
for and defend, as the "guardians of Mother Earth" who are . We are not going to
narrate the history of the EZLN, nor to explain how it is possible that a
movement like Zapatismo has managed to be a beacon for the counter-systemic
struggles from below and on the left. Time will tell if the obstinacy of
thousands of revolutionary indigenous people from the Mexican southeast,
determined to create "another possible world", traces a real horizon in which the
capitalist world-system has been destroyed and what is built places life at the
center. and not death. At the moment, after almost 40 years of walking, the EZLN
continues to be a hope for the world.

We could write about many issues, sending
obeying, the construction of autonomy, its conception
of practice and theory, their anti-patriarchal struggle, the
Zapatista principles, etc., but on this occasion we want
focus on walking asking questions and celebrating the difference.

 From its beginnings, the EZLN shows us an example of what it means to learn to
listen to the other and to walk asking questions. That small group of insurgents
that arrived in the mountains to create a revolutionary vanguard army, did not
imagine the transformation process that it would undergo until it became the army
of an indigenous resistance movement. In the words of the late Sub Marcos: "We
really suffered a process of re-education, of remodeling. As if we had been
disarmed. . As if they had dismantled all the elements we had - Marxism,
Leninism, socialism, urban culture, poetry, literature - everything that was part
of us". "What allowed the EZLN to survive and grow was accepting that defeat. If
the EZLN had not accepted it, it would have isolated itself, it would have
remained small, it would have disappeared".

Could it be that our struggles remain small because such
maybe we don't know how to listen? In these moments, when the
polarization erodes and tears apart our movements,
It seems difficult to learn to ask questions, to be able to open our trenches to
other perspectives, other voices, to be able to "celebrate the difference" and
accept that diversity is a wealth, that without it it is difficult to build a
broad-based organizational process that can overcome the rigidity of the dogmas
and ideologies that separate us.
As the indigenous culture that permeates the
Zapatismo, listening is not the same as hearing, it means
establish a dialogue between equals, with respect, without
hierarchies, without dogmatism. It means being willing to
transform on the way. "Contrary arguments and,
not infrequently, contradictory to ours, we have not been
convinced, true, but they have helped us to understand that
there are different positions and different thoughts, and that
it is reality that sanctions, not a self-erected tribunal,
be it in the academy, be it in the militancy. provoke the
thought, discussion, debate is something that we,
we Zapatistas value it a lot." For this reason they have
dedicated great efforts to generate spaces of
political and cultural exchange, to weave networks between
different struggles in the world, always from the perspective of "everyone in his
time, in his way and in his geography".
The Zapatista struggle has been building its autonomy, without
a preconceived plan, although yes, with a horizon
of course, reviewing their steps and always willing to change. Perhaps we should
give ourselves the chance to go a little further along our paths of struggle and
accept change, before giving up if the drift of what is being built does not
match our expectations. Perhaps we should prepare for collective defeat instead
of pursuing personal victory. Perhaps this would be a first step towards the
construction of "a world where many worlds fit".
For all this legacy, thank you compas! Zapata lives, the
fight continues!

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