Small Worlds. Neo-Zapatism, the Fourth World War, and Disaster Capitalism
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https://doi.org/10.29092/uacm.v21i55.1106Keywords:
EZLN, World War IV, anti-systemic movements, poetics of insurgency, utopiaAbstract
This paper studies the “Fourth World War”, a notion that emerged within the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) during the end of the 20th century. It refers to a specific moment of capitalism: neoliberalism, against which the EZLN took up arms in 1994, although it had been organized for it since a decade before. Remarkable in its conceptual nature, World War IV is a specific moment of capitalism, against which the EZLN counterposes the organizational experience of its work areas (revolutionary praxis), as well as a political language of the anti-capitalist left (the poetics of insurgency), which together represent two dimensions of a small world, or an alternative historical possibility to the capitalism of disaster.
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