Re: "FOR AMERICAN TO LIVE, EUROPE MUST DIE"

["Hunter Gray" <hunterbadbear@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a cordial note to Jim Drysdale.  I don't see Native tribalism [or most
tribalism generally] as nationalism -- but instead as a deeply rooted
reservoir [One Big Family, Nation] from which one draws significant strength
and insight and wisdom: for either living one's life in total within that
tribal society -- or, based therein, out and laboring in the fields and
forests beyond! And a great many American Indians have  always been damn
militant union members! [Tribalism is never utopian -- there can be
significant internal problems in any tribe anywhere, and are  -- but it is
cohesive and fundamentally strong and offers its people much indeed that's
positive. And, if the non-tribal peoples are willing, it offers them a great
deal as well.]

I don't see Native tribalism -- with its essential ethos of democratic
communalism and tribal  [mutual] responsibility -- as being, say, inherently
materialistic in the negative sense and predatory and imperialistic. So I
don't see at all the kind of nationalism about which you are concerned.   On
the other hand, I would hope that any socialist democracy respects, supports
and otherwise enhances cultural pluralism -- and certainly that of
communalistic tribalism!

The kind of socialism that I envision -- and I'm not at all sure that we are
that apart on this -- is one that, among other fine things, offers the
maximum number of choices.  I've always felt that Native tribal nations
[with eyes always open, of course] will certainly fare much, much better
indeed within and around the context of socialist democracy than we ever
could under capitalism.

Fraternally -
Hunter Gray  [ Hunterbear ]
www.hunterbear.org  ( strawberry socialism )
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