In Kautsky`s "Origins of Christianism" you can find very insightful considerations on early slavery.
The story of women taken by Amerindians is quite common in what today is Argentina, where this was a common practice among the Pampa and Araucanized tribes in the Pampas up to 1879. And yes, many of these women, when given the choice to return to "civilization", chose to remain in the "tolderías" (that is, the "tent villages"). This, however, (a) does not and cannot imply support to any form of violence against women, (b) must not make us forget that under the conditions of capitalism, none of the positive (no inverted commas) features of early slavery remain, and every negative feature of capitalist exploitation must be added, (c) not every tribe, not at all, was "matriarcal", and (d) "forced adoption" is a misleading way to tame the consideration of women as objects to be taken. We don´t need to embellish precapitalist formations to sruggle against capitalism. Richard Levins escribió: > I think that in earliest times, slavery was somewhat different. The > literature talks of people "enslaved" by Amerindians, but it was more > like forced adoption into the tribe and when "rescued" many women ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
