>While the powerful (i.e., under capitalism, the rich) should bear the
>greatest responsibility, we should remember that slaughtering and confining
>the Indians was a "populist" cause during the 19th century. (For example,
>Andrew Jackson, the man who organized the "Trail of Tears" and the clearing
>of almost all of the natives from east of the Mississippi, was elected
>partly because of his "successes.") Working people benefited from the
>ability to homestead land stolen from the Indians.
>
>Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
True, all too true. Working people also benefited from slavery. They also
benefit today from imperialism today. The only way that true progress can
be made is if working people figure out that their enemy is the same as
those who murdered the Indian, enslaved Africans and made war against the
Iraquis. Malcolm X once said that the Negro had to stop imitating his
master. Not only did this mean to get rid of the conked hair, but the
conked ideology that went along with it. American working people have to
learn to unconk their brains.
Louis Proyect
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