UNAM
Revista Digital Universitaria
Revista Digital Universitaria ISSN: 1607 - 6079 | Publicación mensual | 1 de septiembre de 2014 vol.15, No.09

ABSTRACT

Defense of life: an academic look at the Zapatista movement



Luis Emilio Riva Palacio de Icaza y Anaid Campos Nájera


Against the capitalist system that managed to deploy and enforce its logical form of social relations in practically the entire world, an alternative system whose characteristics can only be defined from the defense of life and survival ethics articulates of mankind. This system is seen clearly in the Zapatista struggle that has been expressed through resistance and the building of a new world.

Keywords: capitalist system, anticapitalist system, zapatismo, systemic depression, defense of life.