A slight correction to Louis' post.. He wrote in part
However, I can't imagine a more useful or informative book than George
Collier's "Basta! Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas," published
by Francis Ford Lappe's outstanding Food First Foundation. Collier, an
anthropologist, has
Louis's posting on Chiapas is another to archive; it is by far the
best Marxist analysis on the subject I have seen, and Lou manages
to connect up concrete analysis of the issues with fundamental
Marxist questions of state and revolution, and in the process to
launch a critique of Harry Cleaver's
Although I pride myself in being knowledgeable about Latin American
politics, I was astonished to discover how little I knew about the origins
of the Zapatista struggle. The left has paid much attention to the
elliptical but inspired communiquis of Subcommandante Marcos. We have also
participated
