The zapatista uprising poses fundamental challenges for how we think about social theory and political practice. The great contribution of the zapatistas has been to break the connection between revolution and control of the state.
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1. This is the text of a talk presented to the congress of SCOLAS (Southwest Council of Latin American Studies) in Puebla in March 2000.
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2. Michel Foucault, La Volonté de Savoir (Paris: Gallimard, 1976) p. 13.
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3. T. W. Adorno, Negative Dialectics (London: Routledge, 1973), pp. 362–363.
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4. Ernst Bloch, Das Prinzip Hoffnung (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1985, p. 1)
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5. Ezln, La Palabra de los Armados de Verdad y Fuego, (México D.F.: Editorial Fuente-ovejuna, 1994/1995),Tomo.1, p. 122.
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6. On the concept of dignity, see John Holloway, ‘Dignity's Revolt’, in J. Holloway, E. Peláez (eds), Zapatista! Reinventing Revolution in Mexico, Pluto Press, London, 1998
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7. ‘Discurso inaugural de la mayor Ana María’, Chiapas no. 3, p. 103. Roughly translated: ‘behind the balaclava are the we that are you’.
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8. Antonio García de León in EZLN, Documentos y Comunicados: 1 de enero / 8 de agosto de 1994 (México D.F: Ediciones Era, 1994), p. 14
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9. ‘Discurso inaugural de la mayor Ana María’,Chiapas no. 3, p. 103.
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10. Subcomandante Marcos—quoted by Rosario Ibarra, La Jornada, 2 de mayo, 1995, p. 22.
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11. !This is not a quotation. I am putting words in their mouth.
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12. !‘Mandar obedeciendo’
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13. Yvon Le Bot, El Sueño Zapatista, México D.F, Plaza & Janés, 1997, p. 191
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14. Communiqué of May 1996, La Jornada, 10 de junio de 1996.
