Re: Quebec nationalism

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 3:27 PM 10/22/95, Alex Trotter wrote:

>Demands for sovereignty by Indians seem to
>be communitarian rather than class-based; indeed, they could call into
>question not just capitalism but civilization itself (see, once again,
>the "Ethnological Notebooks").
>        If Karl Marx were alive today, he would most definitely be on the
>side of the Iroquois.

Heavens no. Marx celebrated the civilizing powers of capitalism. This is a
fundamental difference between Marxians and greens, anarchists, and
suchlike.

Doug

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