Re: Native American land rights

[Sid Shniad <shniad@xxxxxx>]

> Maybe not resist, but they should see both sides.  I remember when I was in
> Cuba along with Jim Devine.  Young people that I met on the bus would tell me
> that they were communists but that they wanted to go to Miami because levis
> were so cheap there.  They never seemed to ask about the higher costs of rent
> and medical care.

Michael, isn't the question whether or not there is an intrinsic link
between cheap, serviceable pants and the absence of affordable rent and
socially provided health care, and vice versa?

> > 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?

Doug, please address this question yourself. If such a separation is not
possible, your position becomes one of defending capitalism itself, no?

Cheers,

Sid Shniad