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SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS is a spokesperson and strategist for the Zapatistas, an indigenous insurgency movement based in Mexico

SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS is a spokesperson and strategist for the Zapatistas, an indigenous insurgency movement based in Mexico. He first joined the indigenous guerrilla group that would become the Zapatistas in the early 1980s.

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But perhaps Marcos is different. His writings certainly feel a world away from the prescriptive texts of Marx, Lenin and Mao. For a start, they are often lyrical and humorous. They pose questions, rather than dictating answers. Such comedies aside, Our Word Is Our Weapon articulates a new and important grass roots: a participatory, non-hierarchical style of politics. It is not about seizing state power, but dissolving it. Marcos's goal is to make a political space for the empowerment of civil society.

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Start by marking Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. Introduced by Nobel Prize winner Jos Saramago, and illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs, Our Word Is Our Weapon crystallizes "the passion of a rebel, the poetry In this landmark book, Seven Stories Press presents a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos.

Our Word is Our Weapon: Selected Writings. In alternating chapters, Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos and the consistently excellent Paco Ignacio Taibo II create an uproarious murder mystery with two intersecting story lines. by Subcomandante Marcos · Juana Ponce De Leon · José Saramago. The chapters written by the famously masked Marcos originate in the m. The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement.

Category: Literary Collections Philosophy Biography & Memoir. Marcos first captured world attention on January 1, 1994, when he and an indigenous guerrilla group calling themselves Zapatistas revolted against the Mexican government and seized key towns in Mexico’s southernmost state of Chiapas. In the six years that have passed since their uprising, Marcos has altered the course of Mexican politics and emerged an international symbol of grassroots movement-building, rebellion, and democracy.

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Juana Ponce De Leon (e. Subcomandante Marcos (2004). Kata Adalah Senjata: Kumpulan Tulisan Terpilih 2001-2004 (in Indonesian). Our Word Is Our Weapon: Selected Writings of Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Foreword by Jose Saramago and Afterward by Ana Carrigan. New York, New York, USA: Seven Stories Press. Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Resist Book.

by Subcomandante Marcos, Ana Carrigan . Introduced by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, and illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs, Our Word Is Our Weapon crystallizes "the passion of a rebel, the poetry of a movement, and the literary genius of indigenous Mexico. Marcos first captured world attention on January 1, 1994, when he and an indigenous guerrilla group calling themselves "Zapatistas" revolted against the Mexican government and seized key towns in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas.

The words of poets rarely make manifest the worlds which they describe. But the words of Subcomandante Marcos of the indigenous Zapatista rebels of Mexico - his political communiques, fiction, poetry, letters - have a potent, magical power of their own. The Zapatistas rose up at midnight on 1 January 1994, the day that the North America Free Trade Agreement came into force.