How do we go about making things right for the indigenous inhabitants? What does that look like?
The right to self-determination, which is to say they need to organize among themselves (e.g. form their own communist or worker party) so that they can decide what they want to do. That can be total secession, autonomy within a federation, and even integration if they'd like. There's more complexity, but this is basically what the USSR did.
Some relevant theory:
- LENIN: The Right of Nations to Self-Determination
- LENIN: The Discussion of Self-Determination Summed Up
- STALIN: Marxism and the National Question
there's probably something by Mao on the situation on China but I'm not familiar with it
Links for the lazy (myself included):
Since reading longer articles can be annoying I made the first one into an ebook.
This is a good answer because it lowkey acknowledges that if there isn't working class organization along indigenous lines there probably won't be the chance for self-determination in a revolutionary moment. These things are materially driven, not morally. There will be many historical wrongs not righted in a revolution just by historical happenstance. I feel like too many people think of communist revolution in idealist terms where it's just the moment where all good things happen. Especially in hypotheticals like this where the revolution magically happens tomorrow.
That said, in a non-magic revolutionary moment it would be almost certain that there would be an organized indigenous faction so I wouldn't doubt the ability of an indigenous worker's party to self-determine. I'd be shocked as shit if there were an organized, revolutionary working class movement in the US that didn't heavily feature organization along ethnic minority lines like the Black Panther Party already attempted
I think we have to give Rushmore to the tribe that originally claimed it so that they can have the satisfaction of destroying it themselves.
But the Confederate one we fukken blow that shit up with TNT.
Ask them what they need and want. Whatever we do we need to be in constant communication with them so as to not play the savior role.
The first action of the USSA is a complete dissolution of itself and a mass exodus back to Europe for all wh*tes
