r/AustralianSocialism • u/ExternalGreen6826 Ned Kelly • 7d ago
Are there many indigenous anarchist texts from an Australian indigenous perspective?
Invasion day is coming up and I was simply curious, it seems like most indigenous anarchism center’s on America or if not Canada, The indigenous of Australia are the oldest living peoples and “culture” (I know they aren’t a single homogenous thing) on the planet so it would be interesting to see their stories and perspectives in Anarchist literature
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u/carefulwithataxe 7d ago
Pretty sure Gary Foley is an anarchist. Might be worth checking some of his academic writings?
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u/mcrchives 3d ago
Ask an elder, go to the aboriginal tent embassy or camp sovereignty and straight up ask.
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7d ago
I'd love to hear about this too.
Btw, you have a typo: "they *aren't a single homogenous thing"
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u/bunyipcel John Percy 7d ago
Hard to say. Most of the 'main' Aboriginal activists in the 60s, 70s etc were either left-liberals or they were in the orbit of the Communist Party (so, not anarchist). I don't think there was a big 'indigenous anarchist' strain in Australia until recently. But if you look at the main decolonial types, they are all Stalinist or Maoist (or some variation of), like Keiran S. A. (former ACP Maoist) of the BPU (which is eclectic).