I'll start out with the full disclosure that I am not the "indigenous people understander," but I have heard some interviews where indigenous people speak with distain about how some leftists point to them as an example of Communism in practice (A Navajo if I remember correctly). That indigenous people were practising their own thing which predated the concept of Communism by centuries (if not millennia) and it is a bit colonizey to slap a label from modern european philosophy on it in retrospect.
There is probably a diversity of views about it. "Indigenous people" itself is a very reductive word which basically boils down to "everyone who doesn't fit into the category of settlers." But either way, it is a bit reductive to call them Communists just because they were a communal society.
I'll start out with the full disclosure that I am not the "indigenous people understander," but I have heard some interviews where indigenous people speak with distain about how some leftists point to them as an example of Communism in practice (A Navajo if I remember correctly). That indigenous people were practising their own thing which predated the concept of Communism by centuries (if not millennia) and it is a bit colonizey to slap a label from modern european philosophy on it in retrospect.
There is probably a diversity of views about it. "Indigenous people" itself is a very reductive word which basically boils down to "everyone who doesn't fit into the category of settlers." But either way, it is a bit reductive to call them Communists just because they were a communal society.
Hell the Zapatistas dislike people trying to assign established European terminology to them and their leftism, and they are open communists
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No worries, I wasn't trying to drag you or anything. Just expanding on your post :)
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