The following speech was given by Russell Means in July 1980, before several thousand people who had assembled from all over the world for the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, in the...
I feel that the connection between Marxism and a return to what we would consider spiritualism is something that isn't really discussed that often outside liberation theology.
He has a point about Marxism being a continuation of the mathematical, ordered, capitalist mindset. It is. It's something born in response to that system, so it has to describe itself in those terms. Capitalism had stripped the natural world of its wonder and enchantment in favor of currency.
I think this essay does a good job of bringing his ideas in with Marxist thought.
I feel that the connection between Marxism and a return to what we would consider spiritualism is something that isn't really discussed that often outside liberation theology.
He has a point about Marxism being a continuation of the mathematical, ordered, capitalist mindset. It is. It's something born in response to that system, so it has to describe itself in those terms. Capitalism had stripped the natural world of its wonder and enchantment in favor of currency.
I think this essay does a good job of bringing his ideas in with Marxist thought.
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Thanks for the essay! I'll give it a read today.