re abstract desires of the "preachers, poets, philosophers, writers, and statesmen."3 The agrarian myth became the bedrock of the moral backing for the pull away from industrialization and commercialization of agriculture, and towards the traditional, self-sufficient farmer. Zapata's "city boys" came to be the major proponents of this notion, as they were to be the political face of the movement. So, at the core of the Zapatista Revolution was this concept of individual independence in the face of mechanical and inhuman oppression. If the moral justification of one is accepted, then the other must be rejected. This perspective gave the movement abstract power, and therefore, more universal appeal.
             Nevertheless, the backbone of the revolution was made-up of peasants who were having their communal land inheritances eliminated, and of hacienda workers who suffered increasingly intolerable conditions working long hours on growing plantations: "Displaced by the loss of communal land holdings, subjected to harsh working conditions on the estates, met with government neglect, and lacking other options, they stood up arms to demand a reversal of the sweeping process of enclosure that had been taking place for the last sixty years."4 Hart is careful to point out that although the initial concerns of those in Morelos were strongly localized, the way the reforms were greeted by the peasants and looked upon ideologically were un
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