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Neo-Zapatista movement that emerged in 1994 in southern Mexico, combining indigenous autonomy, direct democracy through assemblies and caracoles, cooperative subsistence economy, and refusal to seize state power, summed up as 'lead by obeying'.
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I want autonomous indigenous communities deciding in assemblies and caracoles, subsistence cooperatives, leading by obeying the people.
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Leans further toward federal than 84% of the 243 ideologies in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Religion, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
A Mexican revolutionary, Zapata led peasants in the Mexican Revolution under the motto Land and Liberty, defending agrarian reform and the autonomy of rural communities against large landowners and the state.
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Zapatista territories in southern Mexico, self-governed since 1994 by mostly Maya communities through caracoles and Good Government Councils, rejecting political parties and the state, with cooperative agrarian economy and strong women's leadership.
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Zapatista territories in southern Mexico, self-governed since 1994 by mostly Maya communities through caracoles and Good Government Councils, rejecting political parties and the state, with cooperative agrarian economy and strong women's leadership.
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During the Spanish Revolution, regions of Aragon and Catalonia lived an anarchist experiment of collectivizing land and factories, with workers' self-management and social organization without a central state.
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Closest within Anarchist
Anarchist branch centered on the countryside, defending autonomous rural communities, collective ownership of land, and peasant cooperation, rejecting the state and land concentration in favor of self-management.
Current of John Zerzan and Ted Kaczynski that sees industrial civilization and agriculture itself as the root of domination, calling for the end of modern technology and a return to small stateless hunter-gatherer communities.
Current of Peter Kropotkin that sees mutual aid as a law of nature and proposes federated communes, integration of farming and industry, science serving all and an ethics of solidarity without the state.
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Current that values indigenous peoples and their rights, defending autonomy, territory, culture, and political participation, along with development models and a plurinational state that respect their traditions.
Current that attributes intrinsic value to all life and not only to human beings, defending a profound change of values, the reduction of human impact, and respect for the balance of the planet's ecosystems.
Movement that places unions and workers' organization at the center of politics, defending collective bargaining, direct action, and labor control over production as the path to working-class emancipation.
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Authoritarian NeoliberalismRight25%