ABSTRACT
The capitalist logic of surplus-value production starts to take over the relational field that is also the domain of political ecology, the ethical field of resistance to identity and predictable paths. As to the political effects of the Zapatista movement, one should note the final irony here: when Klein lists as the main Zapatista political achievement that this movement "helped topple the corrupt seventy-one-year reign of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. This chapter examines whether the Zapatistas are a "Cultural Revolution" laying the foundation for the actual political revolution or whether they should remain merely a "site of resistance", a corrective to the existing state power. The notion that fascism could have been defeated earlier if only the Left would have countered it with its own "politics of passions", an old idea defended already by Ernst Bloch and Wilhelm Reich, seems naive enough. Fascism enacts a certain assemblage of bodies, so one should fight it at this level, with impersonal counterstrategies.
