Native American land rights

1997-12-20 Thread James Heartfield
Native American land rights Ronald Reagan passed legislation guaranteeing the land rights of Native Americans that allowed the two surviving Pequod to claim territories in New England. The Pequod lands are now home to gambling under a legal loophole - one of the easiest ways for Native Americans

Re: Native American land rights

1997-12-20 Thread Louis Proyect
James Heartfield: >Clearly the Native Americans - considered as a cultural group - had an >interest in supporting whichever power promised less change in the >region. They were no match for the yankee ingenuity that was growing on >their hinterlands, and could not compete with the new technologie

Re: Native American land rights

1997-12-20 Thread michael
Thanks Louis for briging up the subject. I agree with Jim Devine that we should discuss it without any sect bashing. I will ignore my own advice and raise an issue about the Cato Institute. For those outside of the U.S. it is a fightful libertarian "think tank/ideological factory". I did not mi

test -- do not read

1997-12-20 Thread michael
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Same Old Song II

1997-12-20 Thread valis
When more than an hour passed in sepulchral silence, without any post to the list on _any_ subject, I got paranoid and logged off for some time. "What have I done?!" Coming back, it's a relief to see this from Louis. [...] > These are big questions reall

Marxism and Native Americans

1997-12-20 Thread James Devine
a good topic, better than cult-bashing any day. I can't claim to be able to digest all of the posts that came across the pen-l wires on this subject within the last few hours, but here are some modest and preliminary thoughts of my own: I guess it could be argued that the victory of capitalism ov

Re: The Same Old Song

1997-12-20 Thread Louis Proyect
Valis: >When our indefatigable Louis today began a project called "Marxism and >Native Americans" I was reminded that some years ago I happened upon >a book by that very title at the library, a 1983 collection edited >by the ever-angry American Indian academic Ward Churchill. Yes, that was the

Christmas greetings from the capitalist class

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The Same Old Song

1997-12-20 Thread valis
When our indefatigable Louis today began a project called "Marxism and Native Americans" I was reminded that some years ago I happened upon a book by that very title at the library, a 1983 collection edited by the ever-angry American Indian academic Ward Churchill. (No point using the term "Nativ

Re: Marxism and Native Americans

1997-12-20 Thread MIKEY
Friends, I want to applaud Louis's inquiries into the struggles of indigenous peoples. I wonder what sort of radical it is who does not stand up forthrightly for the rights of indigenous peoples just to exist as independent cultures. And it is not as if we do not have much to learn (about eg

Marxism and Native Americans

1997-12-20 Thread Louis Proyect
LM magazine says, "The hard truth is that, whether we value them or not, you can't preserve cultures in the way that you can preserve jam. The Yanomami, even if they wish to, cannot remain isolated from the world system. Even if they have no interest in going into the developed world, the develope

Violence against women

1997-12-20 Thread Rebecca Peoples
Below is is a tentative piece of mine on male violence against women that has partly grown out of discussion on the Marxism list on the question of male violence against women. Violence of male individuals against female individuals. Again this form of violence has its source in the nature of capi

UnDemocracy threat to Canada? (fwd)

1997-12-20 Thread Sid Shniad
> December 19, 1997 The Toronto Star by Richard Gwyn > >IMF now de facto government for millions > >FOR ALMOST ALL practical purposes, the >Washington-based International Monetary >Fund (IMF) is now the governmen

Cross Border Trade Unionism (fwd)

1997-12-20 Thread Sid Shniad
>The New York Times >December 20, 1997, Saturday, Late Edition - Final > > SECTION: Section A; Page 1; Column 4; Foreign Desk > > HEADLINE: After 4 Years of Nafta, Labor Is Forging Cross-Border Ties > > BYLINE: By SAM DILLON > > DATELINE: MEXICO

Re: Violence against women

1997-12-20 Thread William S. Lear
On Sat, December 20, 1997 at 11:59:28 (-) Rebecca Peoples writes: >... >Violence of male individuals against female individuals. Again this >form of violence has its source in the nature of capitalist >society. It can never be eliminated without eliminating >capitalism. Capitalism and this for