Re: Marxism and Native Americans

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Heartfield:
>Whatever attitude we today might want to take towards the rights of
>indigenous peoples, it is difficult to find a case for them within the
>writings of Marx and Engels (whose attitude seems at times close to
>genocidal).
>
>Some examples:
>
>'Just as each century has its own Nature, so it produces its own
>primitives.'
>

Excellent, I can't wait till I get my hands on Marx's ethnological
notebooks which repudiate this sort of misinterpretation of his immature
thought. And watch Heartfield ignore the evidence. This is like using the
Herald Tribune articles as a justification for the Vietnam war.

Louis Proyect