(Translation, credit to @yretiemble)

How did the #EZLN start?

The initial conception of the EZLN was the usual one of liberation movements in Latin America: a small group of enlightened who rise up in arms against the government. https://twitter.com/yretiemble/status/1331285110537248775
What happened was, that this formulation was beaten when we met the communities and we realized that not only they didn't understand us, their proposal was best.
We weren't teaching anyone how to resist. We were becoming students of that school of resistance that has been doing it for 5 centuries.
From a movement that was proposing to serve the masses, the proletarian, the farmers, the students, to get to power and direct them; we were turning, slowly, in an army that needed to serve the communities.

Subcomandante Moisés, 2008.
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