RE: Not All Labour Is Valuable
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This idea you keep floating that all humans share the same history just isn't true, though, and to be blunt, is just a white supremacist myth. (Specifically, it's descended from the theory of social Darwinism, which was a political theory created to advocate for the genocide of African and Pacific peoples in the 19th century and became the foundation for eugenics. It also served as part of the foundation for Marx's historical materialism.) A lot of what you're presenting here is, tbh. A unified history, in which classism has always been present, isn't accurate to the combined history of human people. As you continue exploring new means of economic organization, I'd really encourage you to step outside the myths that show you how your society /is/. Your society is such a small, small part of the Earth, and has proven itself utterly incapable of dealing with any problem except the ones it creates for itself.
I am not really tied to my race of which I composite several, I don't care much for it as a debate either I hope you understand, living in apartheid I've had enough race issues for a lifetime.
I can't do anything about cultures, people nor animals purged from the planet of which we've lost many during humans existance, I can only talk about the existing forces and my observations.
I understand and respect that you don't want to debate racism. Neither do I: I want to share how you are expressing anti-Indigenous beliefs. Since you aren't Indigenous, there's really no debate to be had. I hope you can appreciate that this isn't necessarily an easy conversation for me to bring up, since you're basically claiming that parts of who I am don't exist.
My people are not "lost" or "purged": we exist. That Indigenous people don't exist, or are irrelevant or disconnected from the world, is a part of the myth that Western culture tells. I mean, you introduced me to another Native person here on Hive. We clearly exist. :P We have entire nations engaged in work that provides for ourselves and works with other communities and societies. And our communities, while influenced by the West, aren't Western. That's what I'm trying to say: it's a bit offensive for you to talk about my culture like it never existed, is some ancient anomaly, or is irrelevant. There are Native economists, physicists, astronomers, and their Native culture has a major affect on their work. You can't do anything for what is lost, that's true. I'm talking about acknowledging what hasn't been. I'd really encourage you to re-examine that stories that you know as history.
From a rhetorical perspective, I hope you don't mind me saying that it's a bit funny, you say you don't care much for racism as a debate, but from my perspective, you're the one who brought racial supremacy into it and all I'm doing is pointing it out! Your perspective on history, which clearly influences how you argue economics, seems derived from the arguments made by 19th-century Europeans who were debating whether or not non-Europeans were actually people.