To Lead by Obeying: The Political Lessons of Mexican Neo-Zapatismo (Latin America)

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Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Epigraph
Contents
Preface to the English Edition
By Way of Introduction: When the Imagination Takes Power
	An Ordinary and Extraordinary Experience: The First Gathering of the Zapatista Peoples with the Peoples of the World
	Resituating the Event in Historical Perspective
·1·
Leading by Obeying: Popular Self-Government, Political Autonomy, and Integral Global Autonomy
	Defending Autonomy as Integral Global Autonomy
	The Logic of Leading by Obeying
	The Mechanisms and Implications of Leading by Obeying
	The Principles of Excercising a Very Other Government
·2·
The Death of the Human Activity of Politics: The Other Politics and the Other Democracy
	The Other Politics in the Context of the Death of Politics
	Deconstructing and Unthinking Limited Formal Democracy: The Other Democracy
·3·
Mexican Neo-Zapatismo, Heir to the World Cultural Revolution of 1968
	When Being Realistic Means Demanding the Impossible
	Because Even Today, “We want everything, right away!”
·4·
The Mexican Neo-Zapatista Movement and the Transition from a Modernity of Resistance to an Alternative Modernity
	The Multiple Modernities of “Modernity”
	The Other Economy: Mother Earth, Collective Labor, and Equitable Distribution
	Laying the Foundations for an Other Society: A Truly Anti-capitalist Feminism and a Holistic and Anti-commodifying View of Health
	The Other Culture: The Recuperation and Reappraisal of Deep Popular Knowledge
A Conclusion That Questions Instead of Concluding
Appendix 1
Building Counter-Power from Below and to the Left (or, How to Change the World by Revolutionizing Power from Below Power)
	Changing the World by Revolutionizing Power
	Returning to the ‘Power’ of the Classics
	On the Omnipotent Weakness of the State and Political Power
	From Below and to the Left
Appendix 2
The Zapatista Gaze: Looking (to and from) Below and to the Left
	The Gaze That Sees Farther
	The Gaze That Illuminates What Is Missing, What Is Incomplete
	Now We Can See the Horizon!15
Appendix 3
The New Stage of Mexican Neo-Zapatismo
Appendix 4
The Little Zapatista School: Living the Struggle for Autonomy from Within
	On the Way to School
	Hurrying to Get There
	With Books Under Their Arm
	The Whole World Goes Out to Struggle
Appendix 5
The (Symbolic) Death of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos and the Collective Neo-Zapatista ‘we’
	The Neo-Zapatista Expectation of an Unexpected Death
	Despairing Over the Extreme Authoritarianism of the “New” PRI
	Hopes and Expectations of the New Stage of Neo-Zapatismo
	Building the Collective Neo-Zapatista ‘We’
Appendix 6
Mexican Neo-Zapatismo and Its Impact within Contemporary Social Sciences: Six Theses to Develop
Appendix 7
Mexican Neo-Zapatismo’s Contribution to the Development of Contemporary Critical Thought
Appendix 8
Neo-Zapatista Discoveries: Birthing the New World from Below, Knowing Arts, Creating Sciences
	Introduction
	Revolutionizing the Forms of Making the Revolution
	Art and Science for Birthing the New Non-capitalist World from Below
Appendix 9
Mexico and Mexican Neo-Zapatismo in Times of COVID-19
Works Cited
Glossary
Translator’s Note