This sort of thing fascinated DH Lawrence when he was in Taos,NM and was incorporated into the novel The Plumed Serpent. That novel seems to collapse into a fascination with authoritarian politics (the sort needed to run a revolution, DH Lawrence felt) that some have even called fascism. But what I remember most about the novel is the heroine's sexual attraction to two very different type of men. One a dark European-blooded upper class revolutionary, and the other a dark mestizo who is described in stark contrast to the European one.
The danger in the Aztec Philosophy sort of article at IEP (I was looking for entries on Mayan and Incan civilizations but found none by the way) include (1) the lack of real source material and (2) the imposition of what are basically American-Anglo-European constructs on that source material just to have a philosophical discussion for the IEP. For an interesting discussion of Lawrence's primitivism and fascism in the Plumed Serpent, see: http://castle.eiu.edu/~agora/Dec03/JSmithall.htm CJ _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
