Re: M-I: Russell Means, the RCP and Jean Baudrillard

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Heartfield:
>Louis Proyect is right to say that post-modernism and
>indigenism have the same outlook, because both are an expression of the
>anti-enlightenment thinking. From this reactionary standpoint it is
>right to say that Marxism and Capitalism share the same prejudice
>towards progress and development.

American Indian thinking is anti-Enlightenment? I was always under the
impression that American Indians had their own world-view long before
Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." The Maoists claimed that Russell
Means was recycling Rousseau, while Heartfield defines his ideas as
"anti-Enlightenment". In either case, Indian thought is only understood
within the framework of European thought. What we have here is a failure of
the intellect. The brain can not come to terms with something that it is
not in its database. Add to this a certain callousness of the heart and
inhumanity is the product.

Marxism and Capitalism share the same prejudice towards progress and
development?
Odd, I never thought that capitalism had a "prejudice" toward anything
except making profits. You learn something new every day.

Louis Proyect