Indigenous Solidarity An (Un)Settler's Place

this post/article explores the need for placing colonialism properly in our theory and action, and the proper place is central."

this is a draft. (please don't reproduce)

My Thoughts on Leftism: thinking unsettling.
By Alex

There is a problem with the moral verbosity of Canadian leftists and their eurocentric political dogmas imported from England and France etc. They are problematic in the respect that the calls for egalitarianism are based on a specific historical context for a specific culture.

Leftism in Canada uses the narratives of Marxism and British labour history to justify an socialist ethic; however, the history of or the "Americas" is much different. Turtle Island (North America) had the experience of being colonized and there was a territorial fight; by that I mean an eventual genocide against the indigenous populations of the continent by waves of settlers from Imperial nations in Europe, along with the support of allies among the Indigenous nations sometimes employed for wars. There is a difference in ownership of land historically in these situations; the land usurpation was not internal to one cultural/ethnic group or nation. It was collective conflict on another basis than internal class dynamics, which is the basis of Marxism. Moreover Marxist internationalism proposes a blinding of difference to allow settler populations continual benefit from the colonization by presenting an equal right to land for the poor worker and the indigenous alike.

The rest is on my blog, check it out:
http://swiftreversal.blogspot.com/2007/11/my-thoughts-on-leftism.html