SilverSpook is a communist Native Hawaiian and a pretty prominent one, but are there any others I can follow? I’m in Canada, and when it comes to communism in a colonized country, first nations matters must be one of the first things to consider.
I most want to hear a socialist indigenous perspective on whether they reconciliation between settlers and natives is even possible, or if they honestly just want the people who are here due to colonialism and the settler-run post colonial government (me included mind you) to GTFO. Or if not, in places like Canada or the US indigenous people they’re only 1% of the population, how they think socialism should work that’s in the best interests of them, how land ownership should work between them and non-Indigenous people. If anyone has a link to what an actual indigenous person has to say about that, that’d be great.
During an Adam Goodes documentary about his struggle with racism in the Australian Football League/AFL “The Final Quarter”, there was a distinct quote that i’ve forgotten i had it written somewhere for an essay on this very subject i never got around to writing. Basically indigenous people don’t want revenge they want acknowledgement and sovereignty, obviously. Now do indigenous Australians want ML socialism? or Juche socialism? What matters is that indigenous people have their sovereignty and land back and despite the fact that this might be counterintuitive to developing socialism which it wont be but it could be, it should still be the fundamental basis for Communist/ML philosophy on colonized land. A post landback would not scrap all existing framework and i very much think indigenous australian culture has elements that strongly suggest that socialism is possible but alas it should be up to them.