Which is exactly the 'racist, orientalist' take of the post. It situates the 500 year long struggle of Chiapas as derivative of a comparatively minor fin de siecle western ideology.
Many of the ideas of anarchism are more discovered than created. The way I see it, they are doing anarchist stuff, saying that doesn't mean you are making the claim they based everything on some Western philosophy, it's just using the english language word for what they are doing.
Calling it imperial gaze only makes sense if you make the assumption that the people calling the Zapatistas anarchists aren't also anticolonialist. It's not "feeling good about yourself", it's talking about them in the language you understand.
They don't identify as anarchists but they organize themselves in anarchic ways and mostly associate with anarchists.
But even if they weren't, the third world is full of anarchist movements, Latin-America, Southeast Asia has lots of them.
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Which is exactly the 'racist, orientalist' take of the post. It situates the 500 year long struggle of Chiapas as derivative of a comparatively minor fin de siecle western ideology.
Many of the ideas of anarchism are more discovered than created. The way I see it, they are doing anarchist stuff, saying that doesn't mean you are making the claim they based everything on some Western philosophy, it's just using the english language word for what they are doing.
Calling it imperial gaze only makes sense if you make the assumption that the people calling the Zapatistas anarchists aren't also anticolonialist. It's not "feeling good about yourself", it's talking about them in the language you understand.