Demands That Non-European People Give Up Their Values In A Marxist Society

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Marxism demands that non-European peoples give up their values, their traditions, their cultural existence altogether. We will all be industrialized science addicts in a Marxist society. I do not believe that capitalism itself is really responsible for the situation in which American Indians have been declared a national sacrifice. No, it is the European tradition; European culture itself is responsible. Marxism is just the latest continuation of this tradition, not a solution to it. 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…show more content…
God is the Supreme Being; all else must be inferior. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers have been abused, and this cannot go on forever. No theory can alter that simple fact.” The things that are done to the planet will be answered for. Mother Earth will retaliate, the whole environment will retaliate, and the abusers will be eliminated. Things come full circle, back to where they started. That's revolution. And that's a prophecy of my people, of the Hopi people and of other correct peoples. It's only a matter of time until what Europeans call "a major catastrophe of global proportions" will occur. It is the role of American Indian peoples, the role of all natural beings, to survive. A part of our survival is to resist. We resist not to overthrow a government or to take political power, but because it is natural to resist extermination, to survive. In capitalism, everyone is fighting for power and wants to take over, however that is not the case for Indians. They don't want power over white institutions; they want white institutions to disappear. American Indians are still in touch with these realities-the prophecies, the traditions of their ancestors. They learn from the elders, from
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