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   crows call me breadlady (garbados@friend.camp)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 09:09:08 JST crows call me breadlady

   the reason i like Russell Means' "For America To Live, Europe Must Die" so much is that it lays out a tangible character for the post-colonial americas. we have rich cultural and spiritual traditions at our fingertips, if we are brave enough to throw off the forces destroying them. we have practical ways and means with thousands of years of history, which are not the likes of capital and colony, if we are wise enough to rise to their call.

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 09:09:05 JST gnutelephony

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     • Éamonn

     @eob @garbados Indeed, at the time he also asserted the American Indian lives a third and different "ism", though really this was rejection of compulsory authority and the western conception of the state regardless who ran it or why, which perhaps most relates to anarchism.

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     Éamonn (eob@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 09:09:07 JST Éamonn

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     @garbados When Means spoke 43 years ago the competing ideologies were capitalism and Marxism, which he lumps together as "European"

     I wonder how the speech would be different today when environmentalism is also a strong political force. Would Means consider environmentalists allies, or would he also lump them with the "Europeans" because he would regard their reliance on science as "despiritualization of the universe"

     (If anyone else is interested, the speech is at https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/russell-means-for-america-to-live-europe-must-die )

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     crows call me breadlady (garbados@friend.camp)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 09:09:08 JST crows call me breadlady

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     means' writing -- or really, the transcription of his speech -- can boggle the mind if you're unwilling to think with your imagination, but i'm at a point in my life where i just don't care if you can't grok it. do your own homework. i don't owe you an education.

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     gnutelephony (gnutelephony@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 09:14:59 JST gnutelephony

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     @garbados sadly the world as a whole in a sense lost something important with his passing. But yes, he did reject in several key respects the idea of literacy. Some wrote for him where it was necessary to communicate by writing. I did so in respect to communicating with national governments on behalf of the treaty council near the end of his life.