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Zapatistas' Uprising: Poor Mexican Indians against World Neoliberal Capitalism
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Anna Frolova 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8979-3697
Occupation: Assistant Professor
Affiliation: Altai State Institute of Culture
Address: Russian Federation, Barnaul, 277, Yourina
Marina S. Kuran
Affiliation: Altai State Institute of Culture
Address: Russian Federation, Barnaul
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157-167
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The article briefly describes event history of anti-government protests (January, 1994) run by Mexican left-winged armed opposition group called “Zapatista Army of National Liberation” which had economically vulnerable minority of the Latin American country, communities of Indian indigenous peoples of Mexican state Chiapas, as its social support basis. The majority of today's observers tend to believe that Zapatistas' uprising was a turning point for regional public and political climate that encouraged ideological consolidation of world antiglobal forces. The paper considers an ideological core of Zapatism that includes along with philosophical maxims of classic version of Marxsims-Lininism also elements of Anarcho-Pacifism, Maoism, Gevarism, Anti-Americanism, Anticorporate activism in various degrees; the analysis is based on philosophical writings and political declarations by Subcomandante Marcos (political pseudonym), Zapatista Army of National Liberation's head. The Zapatistas chose world neoliberal capitalism that embraces principles of ethic and legal nihilism towards actors of global market as a target for strong criticism. According to Zapatistas' views, neoliberalism entails serious risks for sovereign states pushed away on periphery of world economics: such countries are seen by it as a light barrier on the way toward disgovernmentalization of the world society through selective liberalization and standardization of national sectoral legislations that will help to reach a strategic goal – radical growth of a role of market levers pressure which exactly will ignore basic political and economic needs of a state in favor of multinational corporations. So, neoliberal capitalism logically aimed at forced unification of government control models refusing local traditions of political culture in right to exist. Also, the paper states ideological congeniality between the leader of Zapatistas and several modern outstanding left philosophers (in particular, Jürgen Habermas (Germany), Michael Hardt (USA), Antonio Negri (Italy)) concerning several key fundamental for political philosophy issues. Differences between Zapatism and theory of Communism regarding question of tension in inter-racial/inter-ethnic communication and social structure of revolutionary forces in are outlined.

 

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Zapatista Army of National Liberation, Zapatism, Subcomandante Marcos, Chiapas (a Mexican state), the Mexican Revolution (1910–1917), Mexican Anarcho-Communism, Neomarxsism, Mexican lefts-wingers, the left movement in the Third World countries
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