Date: Tue, 16 Dec 97 23:42:03 EST From: boddhisatva <kbevans-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: questions To whom..., Of course L.P. will not believe it, but I've been wrestling with the Marxist why and wherefore on preserving indigenous ways of life. It seems to me that there is the liberal rights question of self-determination, and the social question of economic good for the most people. These are fairly straightforward. Then there is the question of ownership. Are the indigenous people landowners in the way that the petit bourgeois are? Finally there seems to me something to the notion that the indigenous are proxies for an industrial proletariat that laments its separation from an animist, pagan-style spiritual appreciation for nature. I see the indigenous people as monastics in a sense. On that subject, and to confuse the issue, what should Marxists think of the Dalai Lama? Clearly he's a theocratic patriarch, but such a seemingly gentle and spiritual theocracy is difficult to take issue with on simple political grounds. peace --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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