[On a delegation to the State of Chiapas, about which a considerable
amount of information on the history and contemporary reality of
real life is widely available (some of which came through here!).
Deletions for space, _not_ content.]
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: AH now I understand
: First we support the Poor natives of Nicaragua
: and now we support the Revolutionaries of Chapas in
: Mexico.. Wonder just where the liberation theolgy will pop up next
: I know Free the poor people of South LA..
:
: Beware the Socialists bearing Gifts for they wish to
: enslave your bodies and souls in their web of deceit.
:
:
: IDIOTS
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: Ernie Simpson
: Biker Druid With Attitude
Mr. Simpson,
May I suggest that you go to a university library and obtain a book by
Reed, Nelson (1964), entitled "The Caste War of Yucatan". This work is
still in print, and is "the" book on the Caste War. The Caste War, in
case it is unfamiliar to you, took place during the 19th Century, and
resulted in the creation of a post-Conquest Indigenous State. After you
read this work the continuing resistance to Neo-Colonialism in Latin
America may become "differently clear" to you.
While personally I don't take issue with your characterization of the
Ladero Law (and the rest of Individualism-as-an-Ideology, the "human
face" of capitalism) resistance as "socialist", you may want to rethink
if such "socialism" is non-indigenous.
And yes, the poor of Los Angeles do deserve some mention, I'm glad you
brought that up. California has a long tradition of legal exploitation
of non-Anglos since it was seperated from Mexico, and this more than
anything else (other than the emmigration of poor Americans to LA for
work after being displaced from elsewhere in the American economy) has
created its poor.
If you wish to see the issue narrowly confined to Chiapas, see any of
the contemporary works by the EZLN. Of course, they do attempt to make
a connection to problems outside of Chiapas and the Ladero Law...
Let us know how your attitude continues.
-- Kitakitamatsinopowaw (I'll see you again)-- Eric Brunner