Forging Post-Capitalist Societies in Mexico

Resumo

Socio-territorial movements in Mexico are an integral part of the strategy of communitarian revolutionary subjects to consolidate their societies on the margins of the nation-state. As such, they go beyond resistance to strengthen inherited institutions and traditions, innovating when appropriate to diversify and augment their productive capacities while ensuring the solidity of their governance, social structures, and capacity to care for their territories. This essay draws on reflections from a collaborative effort with colleagues from communities and social organizations as part of the project Productive and Social Innovations to Strengthen Communities and Preserve Ecosystems, project No. 319100, financed by the National Humanities, Science, and Technology Council of Mexico. Among the initiatives analyzed are the Mexican members of the Indigenous Peoples and Community Conserved Territories and Areas Consortium (Territories of Life, TICCA Consortium), the work of the Universidad Autónoma Comunal de Oaxaca (UACO), the National Network for Forest Agave Managers linked to the civil association Manejo Integral y Local de Productos Agroforestales (MILPA), and initiatives integrating traditional and agroecological farming techniques to deepen food sovereignty, including La Via Campesina, Paulo Freire secondary school, and the former Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca.