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The anti-party |
THE EZLN'S "DISTANCE, WITH REGARD TO political parties, has often been interpreted as an anti-party attitude. Some activists in the Chiapas solidarity movements continually claim that the Zapatistas reject dialogue with political parties and, therefore, the solidarity movements should do the same!. In fact, Subcomandante Marcos recently explained, this "distance" reflects above all the EZLN critique of "those parties which claim [aspire] to have a monopoly on political representation, and whose relationship with the public consists in asking [us] to delegate [our] political participation to them [...]