Resurgent Mexico: Six Theses for the Long Term Regeneration of Humanity Quincy Saul - CounterPunch
go to original July 25, 2016

“Did you hear it? It is the sound of their world collapsing. It is the sound of ours resurging.”

– Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, December 2012

Mexico is living and dying for the sins of the global economy. The price of cheap clothes, cheap drugs and cheap labor is paid by the hundreds of thousands dead and disappeared in the last decade alone. From the North, an empire casts shadows of the end of the world. But from the South, an anti-thesis to empire shines, and the beginning of the world arises like a shining star whose five points stand for five continents.

Last month it was my privilege to be a student in the mountains of the Mexican Southeast. This school dispenses no degrees or diplomas, yet it has inspired and transformed millions around the world. This school is the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, and its civilian bases of support, whose autonomous self-government administers roughly half of the state of Chiapas. For the last two decades years they have been building and defending one of the world’s best hopes.

In 1994 the Zapatista uprising awakened the world to a reinvention of revolutionary politics. Over two decades later, its lessons are more relevant and revelatory than ever. As we traverse calendars and geographies between the end and the beginning, between the collapse and the resurgence, these lessons carry us beyond the chaotic conjuncture toward the holistic horizon.

This is some of what I learned at school; six theses for the long term regeneration of humanity.

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Illustration: Magdalena Wistuba, Frederick Eschrich and Mike Miner

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