Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 10:54:50 +0000
From: rdom@thing.net
To: gashgirl@sysx.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: revolutionary politics

Dear swimming doll,

Yes--the Zapa are proposing the invention that may not have a name yet-- they feel the modernist ideologies = capitalism / socialism / marxism are dialectics that are no longer useful in the war against Neo-liberalism.

They are struggling to have the voice of a silenced community become the virus that sets off movements that try to think outside of what history as ideologies have stated was the case--that only that system of ecomonic logic should be followed--it is always harder to ask people to think outside of what has always been the case-- when Commandante Ramona calls for "intergalatic encounters" it points to something that is both fiction from the beyond and and crossing into the unknown without fear--but, it does share with the Tupac Amaru the need to show that one is willing to fight for the right to become something other--but for the Zaps--they would much rather talk the world to Other side--than to shoot it to the other side--and they will not put their weapons down.

Sub-commandante Marcos has often stated that they would all rather be partying, kissing, making art, dancing and watching nasty videos-- than to walking around with guns and having to talk to the Evil State People--but somebody had to do it--Also, the Zaps have never said that they have the answer to all these problems--that would be up to the people to think about and decide within a Radical Democracy-- as one Zap said--The people might end up wanting to be HyperCapitalist or Die Hard Marxist, or TV Models, you can never tell--but at least they decided what kind of hell they wanted to live with themselves--
besos i zapata para ti xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo