Re: [Pen-l] Wages of whiteness in 18th and 19th centure pyschic or real

[raghu <mraghu01@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Doug Henwood<dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Jun 9, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Gar Lipow wrote:
>
>> "The prosperity that fueled settler colonialism after the British were
>> kicked out of  half of North America was large based on land and
>> natural resources taken from indigenous nations."
>
> Land isn't the only "factor of production," but no stolen land, no USA,
> right? I think the theoryheads would call this a condition of possibility.



It doesn't even seem right to say the land was taken from indigenous
nations. The land belongs to no person and no nation. Perhaps you
could say it rightly belongs to all persons and all species that exist
anywhere as part of one common biosphere.

"Imagine there's no countries..." etc.
-raghu.


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