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When a movement becomes co-opted intellectual property we really need to look at the material conditions that stand behind it.
This video provoked me to think about some thing. That even within the first Nations, and my personal experience is at the Cherokee Reservation in Cherokee North Carolina, there is distinct class differences within the Cherokee nation, from the casino,
the same as there are proletarian and bourgeois distinctions at large in America.
So, The question that I have have about landback as a slogan is what is being done in its name?
If we look at the landback manifesto, everything that is said on there, we communists, we are unequivocally in agreement with it.
What I didn’t know though, was that it is part of an NGO, and this NGO has been partnering with capital, which is further enhancing the class distinctions in the name of landback, in these first nations.
And that’s disturbing.
What was supposed to be a revolutionary program for land reform that benefits The proletarian masses of the indigenous people, has instead become a vehicle for capital is to enrich themselves, and a bourgeoisie inside the indigenous nations, without regulation because of The lack of regulatory scheme that exists or rather does not exist because of the special status of some reservation or legal frameworks.
I thought it was a good video to explain the situation as it has developed thus far.
And I think this debate needs to continue.
And I think, just in my opinion, that explaining the socialist idea of what land reform means and how that was initially the intention of landback, and how that has changed, can really help move this conversation forward.
We live in a world of interconnected systems and objects often time having effects on one another that aren’t all at first obvious. These systems or systems of Things are never static and we if we analyze them with a dialectical materialist lens, we can often describe the change over time in these movements.
Land Back went from a revolutionary slogan to a registered intellectual property with funding from several large capitalist organization, (The Bush Foundation and Bezos at $50 million and $12 million given respectively).
What our attention should be focused on is that of the material class interests of those involved and which class interests are being served, and how overtime these things have changed.
The revolutionary character of the idea and activism toward land reform hasn’t changed from the inception of the “Land Back” slogan in March 2020 until now. But Land Back, the NPO, has co-opted the media space of the more revolutionary land reformer activists.
The question now becomes, how to distance the movement itself from the IP and NPO owned slogan Landback™️
The NPO seeks to create a select few new bourgeoise inside the indigenous lands it works upon. This is completely in contra position to the aims of our socialist actions, to equitable and fair land redistribution among the First Nations and their right to self-determination.
The NPO is merely more capitalism, wrapped in woke garb and language, think three companies in a a trench coat, acting like they’re serving indigenous needs, but in reality only enriching themselves a few lottery winners within those indigenous communities at the expense of the rest.
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