TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This chapter reflects upon the main reasons for the universal, deep, and long-lasting impact of the Mexican neozapatista movement during the 25 years of its public life, recuperating not only the immediate reasons but the reasons linked with process in the middle and in the long term. We argue that the neozapatista movement changed the correlation des forces in Mexico in 1994, opening the transition of all indigenous Latin American movements to pass from a defensive and marginal position, to a new offensive and protagonic position. In the general context after 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Mexican neozapatism restores hope in social protest and social fight of all the anticapitalistic and antisystemic movements all over the world. With the above basis, it is possible to understand that this Mexican neozapatism was able to define the general agenda of the main demands and targets that were vindicated for the antisystemic movements during the last 25 years, including all the movements of 2011, such as the Spanish Indignados, or the so-called Arab Spring, or Occupy Wall Street, or even the current French movement of the Gilets Jeaunes, among many others. It explains partially the real function of a kind of “avant-garde” of the antisystemic movements all over the world, playing by the Mexican neozapatismo in the last five lusters and even today.
VL  - 34
SN  - 978-1-78973-592-5, 978-1-78973-591-8/0161-7230
DO  - 10.1108/S0161-723020190000034010
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020190000034010
AU  - Aguirre Rojas Carlos Antonio
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - The Meaning of Mexican Neozapatismo within the Current Antisystemic Movements
T2  - Class History and Class Practices in the Periphery of Capitalism
T3  - Research in Political Economy
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 165
EP  - 190
Y2  - 2024/05/09
ER  -