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from 'sixth declaration of the lancandon jungle'
III - how we see the world
now we are going to explain to you how we, the zapatistas , see what is going on in the world. we see that capitalism is the strongest right . capitalism is a social system, a way in which society goes about organizing things and people, and who has and who has not, and who gives orders and who obeys. in capitalism, there are some people who have money, or capital, and factories and stores and fields and many things. and there are others who have nothing but their strength and knowledge in order to work. in capitalism, those who have money and things give the orders, and those who only have their ability to work obey.
then capitalism means that there are few who have great wealth, but they did not win a prize, or find a treasure, or inherit from a parent. they obtained that wealth, rather, by exploiting the work of the many. so capitalism is based on the exploitation of the workers, which means they exploit the workers and take out all the profits they can. this is done unjustly, because they do not pay the worker what his work is worth. instead they give him a salary that barely allows him to eat a little and to rest for a bit, and the next day he goes back to work in exploitation, whether in the countryside or in the city.
and capitalism also makes its wealth from plunder, or theft, because they take what they want from others, land, for example, and natural resources. so capitalism is a system where the robbers are free and they are admired and used as examples.
and in addition to exploiting and plundering, capitalism represses because it imprisons and kills those who rebel against injustice.
capitalism is most interested in merchandise because when it is bought or sold profits are made. and then capitalism turns everything into merchandise, it makes merchandise of people of nature of culture of history of conscience. according to capitalism everything must be able to be bought and sold. and it hides everything behind the merchandise, so that we don't see the exploitation that exists.
- clandestine revolutionary indigenous committee
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