“Beyond Work: Black and Indigenous Feminist Critiques of Work-as-Being” @LethaboKing referencing the work of Shona Jackson, Denise Ferreira da Silva, and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, among others

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson previously referenced here ( https://twitter.com/rogre/status/1278811397099380736) and here ( https://twitter.com/rogre/status/1278813599541035009)

Still thinking about @LethaboKing’s talk () and it – especially the problem of “working *upon* the world” led me back to “Revolution and American Indians: “Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism” by Russell Means https://www.filmsforaction.org/news/revolution-and-american-indians-marxism-is-as-alien-to-my-culture-as-capitalism/ +

“The man [Marx] was very clear about the fact that his revolution could only occur through the struggle of the proletariat, that the existence of a massive industrial system is a precondition of a successful Marxist society.” +

“[I]n order for us to really join forces with Marxism, we American Indians would have to accept the national sacrifice of our homeland; we would have to commit cultural suicide and become industrialized and Europeanized.”

“I see that the territory of the USSR used to contain a number of tribal peoples and that they have been crushed to make way for the factories. The Soviets refer to this as “the National Question,” the question of whether the tribal peoples had the right to exist as peoples; +

“and they decided the tribal peoples were an acceptable sacrifice to the industrial needs. I look to China and I see the same thing. I look to Vietnam and I see Marxists imposing an industrial order and rooting out the indigenous tribal mountain people.” +

“There is another way. There is the traditional Lakota way and the ways of the American Indian peoples. It is the way that knows that humans do not have the right to degrade Mother Earth, +

“that there are forces beyond anything the European mind has conceived, that humans must be in harmony with all relations or the relations will eventually eliminate the disharmony.” +

“A lopsided emphasis on humans by humans–the Europeans’ arrogance of acting as though they were beyond the nature of all related things–can only result in a total disharmony and a readjustment which cuts arrogant humans down to size…”

I think this thread connects to the above too https://twitter.com/keguro_/status/1330014517762383873