[lbo-talk] Re: Indians, pioneers of property rights

Grant Lee grantlee at iinet.net.au
Tue Jan 13 17:40:58 PST 2004


From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>


> The myth of the Noble Savage is a dialectical twin of the myth of
> Progress of Mankind. It's no use criticizing one without criticizing
> the other.

Why not? As the Benjamin quote suggests there _is_ room for a critical theory of historical progress. Whereas, I suggest, the "theory" of the noble savage is now redundant.

Grant.



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