"The Zapatistas have used the word democracy, although it has different meaning for them than it has for the Mexican government. Democracy for the Zapatistas is not conceptualized in terms of European political philosophy but in terms of Maya social organization based on reciprocity, communal (instead of individual) values, the value of wisdom rather than epistemology, and so forth. The Mexican government doesn’t possess the correct interpretation of democracy, under which the Other will be included. But, for that matter, neither do the Zapatistas have the right interpretation. However, the Zapatistas have no choice but to use the word that political hegemony imposed, although using the word doesn’t mean bending to its mono-logic interpretation. Once democracy is singled out by the Zapatistas, it becomes a connector through which liberal concepts of democracy and indigenous concepts of reciprocity and community social organization for the common good must come to terms. Border thinking is what I am naming the political and ethical move from the Zapatistas’ perspective, by displacing the concept of democracy. Border thinking is not a possibility, at this point, from the perspective of the Mexican government, although it is a need from subaltern positions. In this line of argument, a new abstract universal (such as Vitoria’s, or Kant’s, which replaced Vitoria’s, or the ideologies of transnationalism, which replaced Kant’s abstract universal) is no longer either possible or desirable." (Walter D.Mignolo 742)
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