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...
There is a lot to consider on and reflect. And I agree with some parts. I definitely see where he is coming from. Some of his analysis is lacking, I mean Murray Bookchin and other eco-socialists have sprouted as the challenge of Climate Change and the pollution and destruction of land in the industrialized world has turned out to be an issue whether the country was Capitalist or Socialist.
I'd think we need to assimilate this criticism and find ways to include and improve our scientific socialism, in a way that advances not just the toiling "European-minded" masses, but everyone else. In a way, they feel comfortable. For example, one of the things that made me really happy reading about the October Revolution was how they immediately recognized all these ethnic minorities, and their self-determination. It sucks that they ended up settling the "National Question" the wrong way, and hopefully we'd learn from that.
I think Humanization of the de-humanized is part of liberation; we can't proceed successfully without it.
There is a lot to consider on and reflect. And I agree with some parts. I definitely see where he is coming from. Some of his analysis is lacking, I mean Murray Bookchin and other eco-socialists have sprouted as the challenge of Climate Change and the pollution and destruction of land in the industrialized world has turned out to be an issue whether the country was Capitalist or Socialist.
I'd think we need to assimilate this criticism and find ways to include and improve our scientific socialism, in a way that advances not just the toiling "European-minded" masses, but everyone else. In a way, they feel comfortable. For example, one of the things that made me really happy reading about the October Revolution was how they immediately recognized all these ethnic minorities, and their self-determination. It sucks that they ended up settling the "National Question" the wrong way, and hopefully we'd learn from that.
I think Humanization of the de-humanized is part of liberation; we can't proceed successfully without it.
Hasn't that project of expanding Marxism been undergoing for, like, sixty years now? I mean isn't that pretty explicitly what Fanon did?
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