The Theory of the Rain Forest Against Neoliberalism and for Humanity

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ID3204014
AuthorsPablo González Casanova (corresponding author)
Year1998
Volume53
Issue1
Pages79-92
Publication date1998-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThesis Eleven (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0725513698053000010
OpenAlexW2079980944
LanguageEN
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Mexico's southeastern Maya movement offers one of the most advanced proposals in the construction of a theoretical and practical world alternative. It comes from the rain forest people's deepest convictions, simultaneously synthesizing western beliefs and ideas with those characteristic of the long struggles of resistance by the poor, discriminated and excluded of the earth. The many voices that spoke out at the Intercontinental Meeting for Humanity and against Neoliberalism, held in Chiapas from 27 July to 3 August 1996, reinforced the Zapatista Army of National Liberation's (EZLN) blueprint for universal democracy with justice, freedom, pluralism and dignity for all human beings, and joined in the emergence of a new way of thinking, feeling and acting. The originality of the theory of the Rain Forest is to be found in linking utopia, as a construct of the possible based on reality, with the construction of power derived from civil society. It is also a creative and historic movement that responds to the challenges of the 21st century with hope for the survival of humanity in dignity and justice

Democracy · Dignity · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanity · Neoliberalism (international relations · Pluralism (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Utopia · Latin American Cultural Politics · Law · Philosophy

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