Editing Agrarianism (section)

====Zapatismo====
[[File:Emiliano Zapata4.jpg|right|thumb|[[Emiliano Zapata]] fought in the Mexican Revolution in the name of the Mexican peasants and sought to introduce reforms such as land redistribution.]]
Notable agrarian socialists include [[Emiliano Zapata]] who was a leading figure in the [[Mexican Revolution]]. As part of the [[Liberation Army of the South]], his group of revolutionaries fought on behalf of the Mexican peasants, whom they saw as exploited by the landowning classes. Zapata published the [[Plan of Ayala]], which called for significant land reforms and land redistribution in Mexico as part of the revolution. Zapata was killed and his forces crushed over the course of the Revolution, but his political ideas lived on in the form of [[Zapatismo]].

Zapatismo would form the basis for [[neozapatismo]], the ideology of the [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation]]. Known as ''Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional'' or EZLN in Spanish, EZLN is a [[far-left]] [[libertarian socialist]] political and militant group that emerged in the state of [[Chiapas]] in southmost Mexico in 1994. EZLN and Neozapatismo, as explicit in their name, seek to revive the agrarian socialist movement of Zapata, but fuse it with new elements such as a commitment to indigenous rights and community-level decision making.

[[Subcommander Marcos]], a leading member of the movement, argues that the peoples' collective ownership of the land was and is the basis for all subsequent developments the movement sought to create:<blockquote>
...When the land became property of the peasants ... when the land passed into the hands of those who work it ... [This was] the starting point for advances in government, health, education, housing, nutrition, women's participation, trade, culture, communication, and information ...[it was] recovering the means of production, in this case, the land, animals, and machines that were in the hands of large property owners."<ref>See ''The Zapatistas' Dignified Rage: Final Public Speeches of Subcommander Marcos''. Edited by Nick Henck. Translated by Henry Gales. (Chico: AK Press, 2018), pp. 81–82.</ref></blockquote>