Me personally, I find the EZLN fascinating. (if there is anything bad about them, let me know because I do not know much bad things about them)

They are one of the few movements that anarchists praise that I actually think are based, although the Zapatistas have told westerners to stop calling them anarchists, communists, or anything else.

They also fight against drug cartels and seem to have created one of the most stable territories in the Chiapas region.

However, they are too small to do anything big like overthrowing the Mexican government. They would be crushed quickly.

Give me your thoughts on the EZLN and/or, as the title suggests, any non-ML movements that you support.

    • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Prohibition never worked and never will work. You just incentivize a black market and criminal element.

      Look at the war on drugs, which is essentially drug prohibition. It’s a complete and abject failure, and now you have many extremely powerful and dangerous gangs, syndicates, organizations, and cartels raking in billions of dollars a year.

        • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          It reduced consumptions and reduced hospital visits because who is going to admit to breaking the law? Fun fact, criminals usually don’t go to the hospital for injuries sustained from their crimes, or report their crimes to the authorities.

          Further the major economic issues came after the prohibition. The Great Depression started in 1929 and prohibition started in 1919.

          Also banning alcohol absolutely did not reduce crime. Alcohol sales increased by several thousand percent before prohibition was enacted as people stocked up. Moonshining was a massive career and pastime. The mafia was making a killing off of created, moving, and selling alcohol, speakeasies we’re extremely common and everywhere.

          Also again; who would report their illegal drug usage to the authorities??? Of course consumption would “decrease”. And if the police does not hunt down or prosecute drug users, then of course the “crime rate would decrease”, in the example of China. Do you think Chinese police are scouring the lower levels of Shanghai and Nanking and doing massive drug sweeps every Tuesday?

          Banning things has never, and will never be an effective solution. This has been shown time and time throughout history.

            • ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              Do you think that’s that easy? I’m so surprised that China hasn’t thought about that.

              You have just described the US war on drugs positions. Do you know what that creates? You over police drug users and create a permanent underclass that is trapped by police action, criminality, and poverty.

              Criminalizing will never have positive results. Remove the systemic barriers that create drug addicts and don’t throw the addicts in prison.

              Your solution again is a magical and utopian solution that has no material basis for succeeding.