Neozapatismo

For the early 1900s movement during the Mexican revolution, see Zapatismo.

Neozapatismo or Neozapatism (sometimes simply Zapatismo) is the political philosophy and practice devised and employed by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Spanish: Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, EZLN), who have instituted governments in a number of communities in Chiapas, Mexico, since the beginning of the Chiapas conflict.

Observers have described the EZLN as having libertarian socialist and Marxist influences.

As UCL media studies lecturer Anthony Faramelli has written, "Zapatismo is not attempting to inaugurate and/or lead any kind of resistance to neoliberalism, but rather facilitate the meeting of resistance, and allow it to organically form worlds outside of exploitation."

Others have proposed a broader conception of Neozapatismo that extends beyond the confines of political philosophy and practice. For example, according to Richard Stahler-Sholk, a political science professor at Eastern Michigan University, "[t]here are, in effect, at least three Zapatismos: One is the armed insurgency ... a second is the project of autonomous government being constructed in Zapatista 'support base communities' ... [and the] third is the (national and) international network of solidarity inspired by Zapatista ideology and discourse."

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