WC—Sure, certainly. The rejection of the state as antithetical to indigenous tradition is one example. When I say that I don’t intend to universalize, I don’t know all indigenous traditions. But I know about a bunch of them and I can say I’ve never encountered an indigenous tradition that even conceptualized something like the state and that includes the so called Aztec Empire and so forth. They were radically out of step with the indigenous traditions of this hemisphere that I understand. But they were in no sense a state as it was formed and conceptualized in Europe. So, in my view, you see with the Aztecs, for example, a unique cultural mutation. I’m not even sure it’s an evolution. There are some ruptures, some disjunctures in there that are a radical departure from the indigenous traditions around them, but it’s very different from the state, which is a purely European concept. Progressive is taken as an “enlightened,” preferred alternative within the political discourse of the opposition. It essentially means—more of the same! It’s the trajectory that’s defined the evolution of European political, social, and economic forms of organization and those are interlocked since at least 800 AD. So you take that trajectory if you’re a progressive and you work to help advance it, move it further along. That’s progress you’re talking about. I don’t see anything constructive in the notion of progressivism at all, quite to the contrary. I came up at a time, the late 60’s, when liberals/progressives were quite often the enemy. It wasn’t conservatives. When you look at what distinguishes liberals from conservatives, that is, when you get right down to it, they want the same thing. They’re working off the same assumptions. So I don’t see there’s a way to distinguish and it’s becoming very clear within mainstream political discourse. Blue dog democrats are further to the right than some republicans. That’s what happens when you work off the same basic set of principles. The paradigm articulated by those who espouse a belief in western liberalism is the box they’re working within. So it essentially becomes a question of which route do you want to take to attain the same result. Often times the liberal approach is much more insidious and cruel than conservatives because they have to keep up the charade that they aren’t that way. Liberalism is the enemy—that’s what we learned from the perspective of SDS. Andy—You mentioned earlier that anarchism is the best political option for white people. What’s the best way for white people to support indigenous resistance?
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