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p rinciple of the Zapatistas: preguntando caminamos, 'asking
we walk'.
These can all be seen as examples of pre-figurative politics,
I he idea that the struggle for a different society must create that
society through its forms of struggle. The term 'describes the
idea that if you can embody the change you struggle for, you
have already won - not by fighting but by becoming. Reclaim the
Streets realized this beautiful ly, recognizing that if what the RTS
activists opposed was privatization, alienation, and isol ati on ,
a street party was not just a protest of th s condition but a
temporary triumph over them' (Solnit 200 : 23).
An enormous amount of exp rience has be n gained,
especially in recent years, in this pre-figurativ ' or ' other'
politics, this politics of dignity.7 This includes both experience
in the organisation of the great anti-summit events of th alt r­
globalisation movement and the organisation of the worl d and
regional Social Forums, but also the less spectacular creation
of community gardens, alternative schools, radio station in
resistance, street theatre, and so on. The idea is gaining ground
that the only way to change the world is to do it ourselves8 and
to do it here and now. And yet, the attempts to create now the
other world that we say is possible are never unproblematic: in
a society based on the negation of dignity, a politics of dignity
is always a struggle.
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