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Marcos, excerpt 3.

The Other Intellectuals
From below and from the left, a movement which is building itself, the Other is also
building new realities. We neo-Zapatistas think these new realities, which are already
emerging, and which will go on appearing further ahead, need another theoretical reflection, another debate of ideas.
This places demands on the other intellectuals. First, the humility to recognize that they
are facing something new. And, secondly, to join in, to embrace the other, to learn about
themselves through it and to come to know the indigenous, the worker, the campesino, the young person, the woman, the child, the old one, the teacher, the student, the employee, the homosexual, lesbian and transgender person, the sexworker, the street vendor, the small shopkeeper, the Christian base, the street worker, the other.
We think they should participate directly in the meetings of supporters in their states and, in addition, listen to what all the supporters throughout the country are saying. Thanks to the alternative media, the other media, it is possible to closely follow this beautiful lesson in contemporary national history. In their way and with their means, the other intellectuals will certainly produce analysis and theoretical debates which will astonish the world.
As Zapatistas we think that the Other Campaign can proudly say that it deserves this
country’s best intellectuals to be part of it. Now they will say, with their own work, whether they are deserving of the Other Campaign.