From: Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What a striking evidence does this operation furnish of the wide
difference between the extreme of savage and civilized life. A
gentleman of Typee can bring up a numerous family of children and
give them all a highly respectable cannibal education, with
infi
Concluding paragraphs of chapter 14 of Typee:
A straight, dry, and partly decayed stick of the Hibiscus, about
six feet in length, and half as many inches in diameter, with a
small, bit of wood not more than a foot long, and scarcely an
inch wide, is as invariably to be met with in every house in
T
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> In a message dated 98-02-09 14:48:09 EST, you write:
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In a message dated 98-02-09 18:21:04 EST, Michael Perelman writes:
<< One of the constant irritants of the North American colonialists was the
number
of times that captives did not want to leave their native American captors,
especially the women.
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true, not only did the women not want to
In a message dated 98-02-09 14:48:09 EST, you write:
<< s this really going to happen? I find it nearly impossible to believe that
a capitalist government would ever sign over significant amounts of land to
aboriginals, no matter how solid their claim. Am I being too cynical?
Doug
>>
Acco
At 14:39 9/02/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Louis Proyect wrote:
>
>>What about giving land back to
>>the Indians as they are doing in Canada?
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>Is this really going to happen? I find it nearly impossible to believe that
>a capitalist government would ever sign over significant amounts of land to
>abor
From: Doug Henwood [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 1998 3:11 PM
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Subject:Re: primitive communism
Louis Proyect wrote:
>The first step is making the legal case. . . .
Yeah, that's me. PEN-Ler Jim Craven will be on, 5 PM on
>Yeah, that's me. PEN-Ler Jim Craven will be on, 5 PM on Thursday.
>
>There's a big difference between ending Jim Crow and redoing property
>relations. Property relations are the bedrock of the capitalist form.
>
>Doug
Nobody has any illusions that capitalism will be abolished in British
Columbia
Louis Proyect wrote:
>The first step is making the legal case. The next step is direct action to
>enforce the legal decision. This is what happened in the US after Brown
>versus Board of Education ruled against segregation. If people hadn't
>sat-in, marched and boycotted, Jim Crow would still be
One of the constant irritants of the North American colonialists was the number
of times that captives did not want to leave their native American captors,
especially the women.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 916-898-5321
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>Is this really going to happen? I find it nearly impossible to believe that
>a capitalist government would ever sign over significant amounts of land to
>aboriginals, no matter how solid their claim. Am I being too cynical?
>
>Doug
The first step is making the legal case. The next step is direct
Louis Proyect wrote:
>What about giving land back to
>the Indians as they are doing in Canada?
Is this really going to happen? I find it nearly impossible to believe that
a capitalist government would ever sign over significant amounts of land to
aboriginals, no matter how solid their claim. Am
Jim Devine:
>However, didn't Marx talk about the limits of primitive communism, too? I
>wasn't expecting Louis to do so in a movie review, but the issue seems
>relevant. Is there some way to combine the benefits of advanced technology
>(indoor plumbing, etc.) with t
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Doug Henwood wrote, about Louis saying "What about
giving land back to the Indians as they are doing in Canada?":
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> Is this really going to happen? I find it nearly impossible to believe that
> a capitalist government would ever sign over significant amounts of land to
> ab
> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 15:16:42 -0500
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This feels right to me (given my inadequate knowledge of anthropology, of
course). I think that there's a lot of truth to Marx's notions of
"primitive communism" (as opposed to our current, class-dominated,
society). Groups of people united by family and kinship ties and by the
goa
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