Valis: >Stage whisper: <Hmmm, I guess Louis felt like joking; well, I'm no slouch >at political comedy either!> >Yes, that must be it, Louis. I'm a victim of bad Nixonian plumbing >and now have the same staph problems as the Democrats. But there was a serious side to my post, which you do not address. The notion that Marx and Engels were fans of capitalism is based on a total misunderstanding of his overall theory and the work of people following in his tradition. Sometimes I get the impression that everybody's understanding of Marx is based on that first chapter of the CM. You would be better off not reading that chapter and not speaking about Marxism rather than misrepresenting Marx's true views. By counterposing Russell Means to Karl Marx, you are obviously confused on these matters. The whole point of my series of articles on Marxism and the American Indian since last January has been to move the dialectic to a higher level. Marxism did not come to a conclusion in 1848. It lives on. The work of Mariategui, the position papers of the Guatemalan and Chiapas guerrilla movements document the interpenetration of class and indigenous themes. The either/or polarity between indigenous land claims and proletarian revolution exists only in the minds of people who are not thoroughly grounded in Marxism. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
