My Thoughts on Leftism

So there is a problem with the moral verbosity of Canadian leftists and their eurocentric political dogmas imported from England and France etc. They are problematic in the respect that the call s for egalitarianism are based on a specific historical context for a specific culture.

Leftism in Canada uses the narratives of Marxism and British labour history to justify an socialist ethic; however, the history of or the "Americas" is much different. Turtle Island (North America) had the experience of being colonized and there was a territorial fight; by that I mean an eventual genocide against the indigenous populations fo the continent by waves of settlers from Imperial nations in Europe. There is a difference in ownership of land historically in these situations the land usurpation was not internal to one cultural/ethnci group or nation. It was collective conflict on another basis than internal class dynamics, which is the basis of Marxism. Moreover Marxist internationalism proposes a blinding of difference to allow settler populations continual benefit from the colonization by presenting an equal right to land for the poor worker and the indigenous alike.

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