[lbo-talk] Re: Zapatista - looks like the last part of it.

[Brad DeLong]

>I approved it already! I let things like this through, because 
>they're important documents of broad interest.
>
>I hate to ask this, since it feels like sacrilege to me (I'm not 
>being ironic with that, either, and these are really meant as 
>questions), but does this statment amount to anything more than 
>pretty words? I was really excited when the Zaps burst onto the 
>scene. But almost a dozen years later, how much difference have they 
>made? Is the model of a loosely organized group, very geographically 
>and ethnically based, that doesn't aim to take state power, really 
>as promising as it once seemed?
>
>Doug

Well, if you are an interest-group liberal, it is very promising indeed.


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