Chiapas Report

Bishop Samuel Ruiz

Stanford 1-24-01

3 kinds of violence

  • institutional violence
    reduce services --> death
  • repressive violence
  • violence against violence
    ‘counter-violence’
    • The purpose [of the Zapatistas] was not to hold power, but to set up a transition.

    TEACH POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY

    At first people said, “We have no history.” The Indios needed to learn to be the subjects of their own history.

     
    Isaiah
    preceded
    Marx