U p heaval from the Depth The "Zapatistas," the Indigenous Civili.zatiou, the Question of Matriarchy, and the West1

In this article the central concepts of the new Zapatista movement in Mexico are analyzed: dignity, politics, the government, democracy, power, autonomy, law and rights, justice, freedom, the land, community, the dead (history), the prophecies of the upheaval, and the army. This is done from the point of view of a feminist theory of society that is based on the analysis of the housewifeization of labor, the colonization of life and nature, the continuing process of primitive accumulation, and patriarchy in the capitalist world system. In this analysis, formulated as questions to Ramona, the Zapatistan leader, I ask about a possible subsistence perspective of the movement and an attitude of dissidence of the people that would correspond to the deep Mexico, newly emerging as a possibly matriarchal civilization.