Re: Native American land rights

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sid Shniad wrote:

>> > 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?

Following in this morning's PEN-L tradition of quoting poets from memory,
I'll quote Wallace Stevens' "It must be possible. It must!" I keep hoping
that a more humane social system could appropriate the technical and
organizational knowledge produced by capitalism and re-deploy it for
purposes other than making money and steepening hierarchies. Maybe this is
too optimistic.

Doug