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""This book is not only a well documented history of the Zapatista movement but also a brilliant political and philosophical analysis of the main innovations it brought to revolutionary culture."" --Michael Löwy, sociologist, philosopher, and coauthor of Revolutionary Affinities: Toward a Marxist-Anarchist Solidarity ""Jérôme Baschet's work offers us, with rigor and tenderness, a detailed portrait of the Zapatista world. He does not do it by flying over from above but through his commitment to a movement that has shown that capitalism can be resisted and at the same time transform the world from below."" --Raúl Zibechi, author of Constructing Worlds Otherwise ""The Zapatista Experience is indispensable to read--and even to study collectively. It is one of the most comprehensive and fruitful works on contemporary Zapatismo. A necessary and timely tool for very different struggles."" --Gilberto Lopez y Rivas, Mexican anthropologist, and author of Autonomías

"""In the context of renewed anticapitalist struggles of indigenous peoples, in the face of the implementation of megaprojects and neo-Indigenist policies of the current government that threaten their territories, vital resources, and autonomous processes, it is essential to read . . . Jérôme Baschet's book."" --Gilberto Lopez y Rivas, in La Jornada"

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Jérôme Baschet is a historian teaching at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and the Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas in San Cristóbal de las Casas. In studying the Zapatista struggle he found a tangible example of a real utopia and a powerful source of inspiration both for rethinking his work as a historian and to reopen critical reflections on possible post-capitalist worlds. Baschet is the author of a dozen books. The Zapatista Experience is the first of his books to be translated into English.Traductores Rebeldes Autónomos Cronopios (TRAC) is a group of US-based, radical translators.

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