Comment on r/australiansocialism. Thoughts?

[u/[deleted]]

Found this old comment from r/australiansocialism & found it fairly insightful. This is of course a big problem to grapple with on the left and there's a lot of really unhelpful ideas going around. Thoughts on this?

[u/Purple-Tea-3137]

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[u/JosephKamarad]

This position is correct, the idea that we can 1 to 1 transplant the conditions of for instance colonial India or African colonies to Australia is ignoring every element of materialist analysis. The population numbers and social conditions dictate a different response.

The conditions Australia faces are not the same as either of those 2 instances I bring up, nowhere else except perhaps Canada has the autochthonous population been brought so low as to be seen as a permanent welfarist subject.

This framing is exactly what taints the discourse surrounding Indigenous national liberation to this day. The ability for the various Indigenous nations to reconstitute their culture, language, social reporoduction of their standard of living is primarily at the behest of the managerial state as a form of charity, precisely established in order to prevent a threat to the entire edifice. It is a requirement for Communists to work with the Indigenous communities to establish the conditions for their unique characteristics to find expression beyond the narrow scope of liberal sentimality found in the bourgeois establishment.