In southern Mexico today there is a clash between two spatial projects that are increasingly inimical to one another. On the one hand, capital is seeking to expand and transform the region into a new pole of accumulation. On the other hand, indigenous communities are vigorously struggling against the dispossession that this would entail and defending their claims to territory, often through the conscious creation of “counter-spaces.” In doing so, they are raising fundamental questions about the meaning of democracy, development, and multiculturalism and the role of class struggle in informing these issues.
En el sur de México hoy día hay un choque entre dos proyectos espaciales que aumentan en su enemistad. Por una parte, el capital busca expandirse y transformar la región en un nuevo polo de acumulación. Por otra parte, las comunidades indígenas luchan con vigor contra la desposesión que esto ocasionaría y defienden sus derechos territoriales, a menudo por medio de la creación consciente de “contra-espacios.” En hacerlo, plantean interrogatorios fundamentales sobre el significado de la democracia, el desarrollo y el multiculturalismo y el papel de la lucha de clases en informar a estas problemas.
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