File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1997/marxism-thaxis.9712, message 587


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




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