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    It is a common belief of the Anglo-Saxon that the Indian is essentially lazy. The reasons for his thinking so are two: under the various tyrannies and robberies which white men in general, and Anglo-Saxons in particular (they have even gone beyond the Spaniard) have inflicted upon Indians, there is no possible reason why an Indian should want to work, save the idiotic one that work in itself is a virtuous and exalted thing, even if by it the worker increases the power of his tyrant.

    As William Archer says: “If there are men, and this is not denied, who work for no wage, and with no prospect or hope of any reward, it would be curious to know by what motive other than the lash or the fear of lash lash, they are induced to go forth to their labor in the morning.” The second reason is, that an Indian really has a different idea of what he is alive for than an Anglo-Saxon has. And so have the Latin peoples. This different idea is what I meant when I said that the mestiza have certain tendencies inherited from the Latin side of their make-up which work well together with their Indian hatred of authority.

    The Indian likes to live; to be his own master; to work when he pleases and stop when he pleases. He does not crave many things, but he craves the enjoyment of the things that he has. He feels himself more a part of nature than a white man does. All his legends are of wanderings with nature, of forests, fields, streams, plants, animals. He wants to live with the same liberty as the other children of earth. His philosophy of work is, Work so as to live care- free. This is not laziness; this is sense—to the person who has that sort of make-up.


    Voltairine de Cleyre, The Mexican Revolution 

    Reading this makes me fucking depressed, actually. This was written over a hundred years ago, by a white person. It’s like, what the fuck happened. Why weren’t more people inspired by these words and driven to what we now call anti-colonialist action?

    Maybe industrial civilization/colonialism really did need to run its course, to exert all this power and energy, which necessitates collapse… But it still makes me wonder if it could have been stopped. (“What if?“‘s are a waste of time, I know.)

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    Voltairine de Cleyre, The Mexican Revolution 

    Reading this makes me fucking depressed, actually. This was written over a hundred years ago, by a white person. It’s like, what the fuck happened. Why weren’t more people inspired by these words and driven to what we now call anti-colonialist action?

    Maybe industrial civilization/colonialism really did need to run its course, to exert all this power and energy, which necessitates collapse… But it still makes me wonder if it could have been stopped. (“What if?“‘s are a waste of time, I know.)

    (Source: cuntymint)


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