Date: Sun, 11 Jan 98 9:59:28 EST
From: boddhisatva <kbevans-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-I: Russell Means, the RCP and Jean Baudrillard







		C. Proyect,



	If one first stipulates that relations between capitalists and
indigenous people have been uniformly unjust, and that indigenous people
have the right to self-determination in their own land, there remains a
question that deserves some thought.  A hypothetical might narrow it: 



	If some indigenous people found a group of modern people on their
land who had fled from tyranny, and the indigenous people took them in,
and the modern people agreed to subject themselves to the native
community, what would the responsibility of the native community be when
the modern people asked for the right to develop modern means of
production?  If modern people ask indigenous people, as equals, for the
right to economic self-determination through industrial technology, what
right would the natives have to insist that their means of production -
clearly inferior for rendering the necessities of life - should prevail?


	I am not implying, by any means, that this has happened in history to
any significant extent.  I think that the question deserves looking into
because it, through an extreme example, may make the development question
clearer.





	peace





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