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Title: Marcos Loves Modernization Author: Ted Kaczynski Date: 2017 Language: en Topics: Zapatistas, anti-civ, modernity Source: https://www.wildwill.net/blog/2017/04/26/marcos-loves-modernization/
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:
<quote>
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,
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.
— Subcomandante Marcos National Polytechnic Institute, Zocatenco,
Mexico, March 2001 (as quoted in English Translation in Food & Water
Journal, Summer 2001, pages 24-27)</quote>
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?