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Title: Marcos Loves Modernization Author: Ted Kaczynski Language: en Topics: civilization, Zapatistas, technology, primitivism, Ted Kaczynski, green anarchism, Green Anarchy Source: [[http://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC510_scans/APLAN_Anarchist/510.green.anarchy.FallWinter.2001.pdf]] Notes: This text was transcribed by the editorial team of http://thewildernist.org, an anti-industrial conservation magazine.
I see from Green Anarchy No.6, page 7, that JesĂşs SepĂşlveda says the
Zapatistas are resisting modernization. If that's true, then they had
better get rid of Subcomandante Marcos, ¡muy pronto! The good
Subcomandante is no opponent of modernization. Here are some quotes from
a speech that he gave during the Zapatistas' recent march on Mexico
City:
"If we don't already have enough money for medicine, now they will be
taking another bit out of our wages ...
"The economic packages ... mean nothing to us but more taxes, price
increases, salary reductions, more unemployment, fewer work benefits,
lower budgets for education, less housing, fewer services, less food,
fewer lands, fewer hospitals, fewer doctors, less medicine.
"...[O]n what used to be our land, we put up airports for the new
bosses. But we will never travel in a plane. Similarly, we build
highways, and we will never have an automobile. We build entertainment
centers, and we will never have access to them. We put up shopping
centers, and we will never have money to shop in them. We build urban
zones with all the services, and we will only see them from afar. We
erect modem hotels, and we will never stay in them.
"In short, we are putting up a world which excludes us.
"You made the house, you put in the electricity, the water, the
plumbing. You paved the street. You planted the garden. You built the
furniture. You painted the walls. You set the tables. You got the food.
You prepared the meal.
"And you are left outside. Because someone else came in and occupied the
house.
"Someone else is the one whose life is illuminated. Someone else is the
one who cleans himself up; the one who goes in the vehicle; the one who
uses the furniture; the one who enjoys our work; the one who is fed...
"The one which has the light, prosperity, progress, joy, hope is theirs,
those who, being few, have everything.
"The street and the countryside are for us. They call our destitution
home.
"You will leave school and you will find there are no jobs, and if there
are any, they are poorly paid. Graduating from a public school is good
for nothing but third-rate employment"
(From a speech by Subcomandante Marcos at National Polytechnic
Institute, Zacotenco, Mexico, March, 200 I, as quoted in English
translation in Food & Water Journal, Summer, 2001, pages 24-27.)
It's clear what Subcomandante Marcos is driving at, and it isn't an end
to modernity. He just wants the poor people to have their fair share of
the technological pie. Undoubtedly, poor people do deserve their share
of the pie—if you accept that the pie should exist at all. But if you
don't believe that there should be any electricity, plumbing, modern
medicine, schools, or jobs, then it makes no sense to say that poor
people ought to have a share of these things.
It's an old, sad, often-repeated story: True and genuine popular
rebellion is taken over by sophisticated leftist intellectuals—in this
case Subcomandante Marx, I mean Marcos, and his cronies—who manipulate
it, betray it, and pervert it to their own ends. The leftists have done
this again and again. When will people ever learn? When will you, green
anarchists, ever learn?