On Jul 13, 2006, at 5:58 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
> For the statist, things like wage distribution, ownership,
> industrial progress, and democratic participation seem to be most
> valued. The Zapatistas want to create a space in which none of
> these standard measurments are applicable. To my mind, this space
> they are producing is, or at least can be, much more effective at
> fighting off the commodity form and capital's international
> division of labor.
Well count me a statist then, because I think those things are very important. This alternative sounds like some prelapsarian fantasy of hermetic, static self-sufficiency. Led by a former academic who's read Gramsci and Derrida, of course.
Doug