Zapatistas

[HenryB21]

So I was thinking, why not the Zapatista movement? Why don't we all follow their example and become autonomous communities that are sustained through self governance and popular participation?

 

 

...just a though I got while sitting on the toilet.

[Mister Mister]

are you asking other board members, "why don't we?",  or asking yourself "why don't I?" do this?  Why WOULD you do this?

[dsayers]

As no frame of reference was provided, I don't know what you're referring to. As long as people aren't initiating the use of force against others, I don't care how they live their lives, associate, or name themselves.

[LibertarianSocialist]

The only American libertarian intentional community I am aware of was in chile. Unfortunately that turned out to be a scam. It is a shame because I would like to see a functioning ancap community, but I imagine the barriers of our current society are just as insurmountable to them as to the anarchists in their attempts at succession.

 

Maybe a better example of anarcho-capitalistic resistance was the refusal of latifundia owners to obey the mandates of the state, seizing and consolidating personal and local power. This was one of the predominant reasons which led to the collapse of the Roman Empire.

It does show in a sense how dependent the state is on wilful collaboration.

[fractional slacker]

"Although the ideology of the EZLN reflects libertarian socialism, paralleling both anarchist and libertarian Marxist thought in many respects, the EZLN has rejected^[4] and defied^[5] political classification, retaining its distinctiveness due in part to the importance of indigenous Mayan beliefs in Zapatismo thought. The EZLN aligns itself with the wider alter-globalization, anti-neoliberal social movement, seeking indigenous control over their local resources, especially land."

They are a collectivist group trying to free themselves from the collectivist state. Having zero philosophical opposition to collectivism means they are merely expressing an aesthetic preference to form a different hierarchy. They don't oppose central power. They want power. I wouldn't consider them a model to follow from a rational perspective.