Me personally, I find the EZLN fascinating. (if there is anything bad about them, let me know because I do not know much bad things about them)

They are one of the few movements that anarchists praise that I actually think are based, although the Zapatistas have told westerners to stop calling them anarchists, communists, or anything else.

They also fight against drug cartels and seem to have created one of the most stable territories in the Chiapas region.

However, they are too small to do anything big like overthrowing the Mexican government. They would be crushed quickly.

Give me your thoughts on the EZLN and/or, as the title suggests, any non-ML movements that you support.

  • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    32·
    11 months ago

    I guess prohibition didn’t really succeed, but it doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth supporting.

    • PeeOnYou@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      I’d rather support the prohibition of advertising alcohol. That alone would probably destroy the market in a generation.

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      I feel like any sort of prohibition is one of those things that sound incredible on paper, but rarely have any logistical or material chance in succeeding, and end in an ultimate failure.

      It’s better to undermine the societal and cultural mechanisms that purport the problems posed by things like drugs, sex, and alcohol; rather then trying to magically ban it and create a criminal element out of a portion of the population.