Neozapatismo

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"Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny."

File:Zapata.png Emiliano Zapata

Neo-Zapatismo is not an ideology or doctrine but a set of political philosophies and practices inspired by Emiliano Zapata, though certain currents of Neozapatismo can be identified:

• File:Insarch.png Armed insurgency
• National and international networks of solidarity
• Indigenous liberation
• Alter-Globalism
• Indigenous Feminism
• Confederalism
• File:Directdem.png Direct Democracy

History

The origins of Neozapatismo trace back to the 1910s during the Mexican Revolution with its namesake, General Emiliano Zapata Salazar, an Agrarian revolutionary who led the Liberation Army of the South in the fight against the national government to reclaim stolen communal lands. The army disbanded after the government of Venustiano Carranza was overthrown.

File:Marcoshorse.jpg

Subcomandante Marcos

Decades later, during the Mexican Dirty War in 1969 the EZLN started as the National Liberation Forces, a maoist insurgent group, they later left to Chiapas and formed the EZLN in 1994. The Chiapas conflict began with the Zapatista uprising, caused by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). This libertarian socialist militant group borrowed its name from the Zapatismo, believing themselves to be its successor. Although they do not align with any political classification, they support alter-globalization and indigenism, and are strictly against neoliberalism and capitalism. Since their initial uprising was crushed by the Mexican military, the group has since attempted to gain both Mexican and international support by avoiding military offensives. Today, the group claims a large area of Chiapas called the Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities (MAREZ), a socialist confederation run by a democratically-elected council.

In November 2023, the EZLN anounced the dissolution of the MAREZ as an answer to paramilitary threats and cartels attacks. A few days later, they explained how the MAREZ were replaced by the Assemblies of Collectives of Zapatista Autonomous Governments (ACGAZ), that focus more on File:Decentral.png decentralization of power and File:Local.png affinity groups. By focusing on a local scale, the EZLN can now act more precisely and help people in need wherever they live in the free territory.

Beliefs

Neozapatismo is a political and social movement rooted in the ideology of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), which emerged in southern Mexico in the 1990s. Its beliefs combine indigenous rights, anti-neoliberal economic critique, and participatory democracy, emphasizing autonomy, social justice, and local self-determination.

A central tenet of neozapatismo is indigenous autonomy and cultural preservation. The movement asserts that indigenous communities have the right to govern themselves according to their traditions, languages, and customs. This includes control over land, local institutions, and communal decision-making processes, often structured around consensus-based assemblies rather than hierarchical leadership.

Neozapatismo also strongly opposes neoliberal economic policies, particularly those that marginalize rural and indigenous populations. The movement critiques free-market globalization for exacerbating inequality and undermining local economies. Instead, it promotes self-sufficient, community-based economic models, including cooperative agriculture, communal land management, and local trade networks.

The ideology emphasizes participatory democracy. Decision-making power is decentralized to local councils and autonomous municipalities, reflecting a belief that governance should be direct, transparent, and accountable to the community rather than imposed by central authorities. Leaders are accountable to assemblies and serve primarily as coordinators, rather than as traditional top-down authorities.

Social justice and gender equality are also core principles. Neozapatismo incorporates feminist ideals, striving to dismantle patriarchal structures within indigenous communities and broader society. The Women’s Revolutionary Law, introduced by the EZLN, guarantees women rights to education, work, political participation, and freedom from violence, reflecting the movement’s commitment to gender equity.

Another key belief is anti-militarism and nonviolence, though the movement arose from an armed uprising in 1994. Contemporary neozapatismo emphasizes defense of autonomy and community rights rather than territorial conquest or expansion, advocating peaceful resistance and social mobilization wherever possible.

Neozapatismo also promotes international solidarity among oppressed peoples, connecting the struggles of indigenous communities in Mexico with broader global movements against exploitation, racism, and economic inequality. It envisions a network of autonomous communities exchanging knowledge and supporting one another, fostering a global culture of resistance and cooperation.

Finally, neozapatismo is rooted in pragmatic adaptability rather than rigid ideology. It draws from Marxist, libertarian, and indigenous traditions without strictly adhering to any single doctrinal framework. This flexibility allows communities to respond to local realities while maintaining core principles of autonomy, justice, and communal well-being.

Personality

Best friends with Indigenism, considering their unified goals and history, they tend to smoke pipes together and like to talk about their indigenous past.

He admires Guevarism and has posters of him all over his room.

How to Draw

File:Zapatista flag.svg

Flag of Neozapatismo

Neozapatismo's design is based on the flag of the EZLN.

1. Draw a ball
2. Fill it with black
3. Add a big red star in the center
4. Add eyes

And you're done!

Color Name		HEX	RGB
	Black	#202020	rgb(32, 32, 32)
	Red	#CF0821	rgb(207, 8, 33)

Relationships

Friends

• Guevarism - Our hero!
• Libertarian Socialism & Anarcho-Communism - Our egalitarian Pops.
• Agrarian Socialism - Peasant revolt!
• Anarcha-Feminism - Women belong in the revolution!
• Indigenism - We have a long history together... May the ideas of Indigenous Self-Determination spread across the Americas my friend!
• Democratic Confederalism - Fellow insurgents on the other side of the world.
• Liberation Theology - Fellow god-fearing indiginous revolutionary. Though we may be more secular in practice than you.
• Alter-Globalism - The best way to fight the Neo-liberal status quo!
• Post-Colonial Anarchism - Fighting neo-colonialism is what I stand for.
• Post-Colonial Feminism - Alongside protecting our native Mayan women from exploitation and abuse!
• Queer Anarchism - “Yes, Marcos is gay. Marcos is gay in San Francisco, black in South Africa, an Asian in Europe, a Chicano in San Ysidro, an anarchist in Spain, a Palestinian in Israel, a Mayan Indian in the streets of San Cristobal, a Jew in Germany, a Gypsy in Poland, a Mohawk in Quebec, a pacifist in Bosnia, a single woman on the Metro at 10pm, a peasant without land, a gang member in the slums, an unemployed worker, an unhappy student and, of course, a Zapatista in the mountains. Marcos is all the exploited, marginalized, oppressed minorities resisting and saying `Enough'. He is every minority who is now beginning to speak and every majority that must shut up and listen. He is every untolerated group searching for a way to speak. Everything that makes power and the good consciences of those in power uncomfortable -- this is Marcos.”

Frenemies

• Anarchism - I like your ideas but not your dogma.
• Orthodox Marxism - I like your theory but not your dogma.
• Ethnocacerism - I like your dedication to fight for indigenous rights and autonomy, but not your racism or supremacism.
• Marxism-Leninism - I used to be you, but as I said "I Shit On All the Revolutionary Vanguards of this Planet"
• File:MORENA.png Obradorism - If you weren't so moderate I might actually support you! Cut it with this capitalist bull and we cool.
  • File:MORENA.png - Let's have peace? Negotiation?
  • - Its the Mexican Government that forced us to take up arms in self-defence, its not like that, but yeah, okay, atleast your more chill than your predecessors

Enemies

• Capitalism - Bootlickers!
• Drug Cartels - Fuck the mafia! and PRI (Your also one of the reasons why my Autonomous Municipalities got dissolved)
• File:PRI.png PRIsm - ¡Represor pro-yanqui!
• Neoliberalism - ¡CHINGA TU MADRE ESTADOS UNIDOS!
• Neoconservatism - You serve the druglords you claim to fight!
• File:Nationalist Front of Mexico.png Mexican Fascism - Fake Mexicans!!
• American Model - ¡You funded Los Zetas to fight us!
• Zionism - ¡You also helped Los Zetas! and ¡FREE PALESTINE!

Further Information

Wikipedia

• Neozapatismo
• Zapatista Army
• Subcomandante Marcos
• Emiliano Zapata
• Free and Sovereign State of Chiapas

Online Communities

• r/EZLN
• r/GenZapatista

Videos

• Who or What are the Zapatistas?
• The Mexican American Border | From War to Wall
• Viaje Al Centro De La Selva

Gallery

• 
  Original image by ComradeRabbit
• By ComradeChurrito
  By ComradeChurrito
• By Mori
  By Mori
• Credit: TheLegend2T, Source
  Credit: TheLegend2T, Source
• Credit: u/Pangea14, Source
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  By AquaHeart