Re: [Marxism] Re: Help on Hitchens (or Ignatieff) on railroad and indian geno...

[RWRAINEY5@xxxxxxx]

Well, there was an unmistakable romanticism where Amerindians and liberal
Victorians were concerned.    The highly idealized portraits of the Iroquois or
the Sioux by writers like Morgan or Helen Hunt Jackson were hardly a sound
basis for extrapolating generalities concerning Native American life.

Franklin's views of the Indian, like his views of the African Negro, were
patronizing and racist.  And it is simply wrong to ascribe unsullied
egalitarianism to societies at such low levels of development.    Mussolini, we 
are told,
was an admirer of such native warrior societies as the Cheyenne.  Native
Americans, surely, are all things to all people.

Rachel
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