Re: Native American land rights

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Perelman wrote [responding to me]:

>> Maybe there are real positive attractions for most/many people
>> that it would be impossible, and maybe even wrong, to resist. Is it
>> possible to separate the "lures" - the positive aspects of capitalist
>> modernization - from exploitation, polarization, and the destruction of
>> nature?
>>
>
>I don't know exactly.  I confess confusion on this point.  For that reason, I
>appreciate this thread so that I can get a better handle on this matter.

I don't know either, really, which is why I asked a lot of questions,
instead of my usual mode of vigorous assertion. Terry Eagleton says in his
little book on postmodernism that to a Marxist, capitalism is both the best
and worst thing that ever happened to humanity. He's got a point.

Doug