Indigenous Anti-Communism: Haunting Spectre of Ward Churchill w/ Nick Estes

Any and all forms of centralized government are organized violence.

Kia Ora, FAR OUT! What a great convo for greater context. I had no idea of Ward Churchill or the Pretendian infiltrations of AIM and their disinfo work. Russel Means, Angela Davis etc are assumed to be legit because they are from the people. But the traumas and active disinfo has caused fractures around the world so that it's made hard to discern truth. So that's what happened in the Sandinista affairs!? The mass media and CIA disinfo attacks on Communist and Socialist truths has certainly done a lot of damage. Native, Black, Brown people are already on the front line – demanding direct action is foolish. Waking up minds is. The European Occupier Populations of North American Colonies need to be exposed to practical New State alternatives that centre Native Sovereignty in whatever form works for the Nations. What is rotten to me is that the European Colonial Marxists have willingly internalised the patronising and infantilising views of the Militant Pretendian Booksellers. So much so that they have become Militant Left Booksellers and Subscription fighters without any State Plans at all. Content with Personality Wars. When the rest of the World screams for Turtle Island to take action. Those fractures have filtered down this way too, not like we're perfect. Stay Strong, most couldnt endure what you do. But this Colonial Era needs to end.

I learned a lot!! thank you

I would like to read a book about the Indiginism of the American Indian.

Thanks for the context and background regarding Means' speech. I agree with it BTW. I also knew that Ward was a pretenDn.

Churchill came to speak at my university. While he was very loud and animated, he managed to not deliver one coherent thought.

'False consciousness' won them zero friends

There's gotta be some way to have this conversation without suctioning the roof of one's mouth to punctuate a thought with a post alveolar click

“Little Eichmanns” elicits the legendary philosopher Hannah Arendt’s analysis of “the banality of evil”. It’s my opinion that the Regents at the University of Colorado, Boulder, were looking for any reason to silence critics of the Wolfowitz doctrine of the Bush era, and of course the larger dialogue around Empire and the Imperial boomerang. Funny that the establishment of current moment has found a new peg to hang its hat on- Hasan Piker.
Of course this misses the rest of the story of Churchill you discuss here. I was a student at CU Boulder when this was going down. I really only knew of the most superficial “scandal” around this teacher, nothing of the larger problem you discuss here. So this is really interesting to learn.

An interesting, long conversation. Always great to hear Nick talk about context. What I'm left with is the idea that "primitive" means anachronistic, which puts anyone with that label, in any situation with that label, into a museum, and we know that museums are static places. So if people who are claiming their own cultural and religious identities don't have the freedom to do that without being labeled Primitive, they become wax figures in their own lives?

I'm just waiting until this talk isn't considered a subculture/counterculture

Illuminating discussion re the role of W. Churchill and R. Means in the division of AIM and its relationship to the Sandinistas as well as re native class consciousness, which needs so much more attention from Marxist-Leninists. Thanks!

“Marxism-Leninism taught me what society was. I was like a blindfolded man in a forest, who doesn’t even know where north or south is." -Fidel