Re: Native American land rights

[Ajit Sinha <ecas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:29 22/12/97 -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
>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.
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I think it is problematic to separate 'technology' from the relation under
which that 'technology' was developed. If capitalist relation could not
work with feudal technology, then how come socialist relation could work
with capitalist technology? I think a critique of technology should be put
on the agenda. Cheers, ajit sinha
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