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The Indigenous Appeal to Equity and Community Voices 

The Indigenous Appeal to Equity and Community

For many centuries, the Western world has thought Communism to be an impossible ideal—sometimes even a dystopic nightmare. However, the Indigenous peoples successfully form a society close to the ideals of Karl Marx: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer valorizes the ways of Native American culture relevant to communism: the lack of a monetary system, the unity of individuals as a part of a greater community, and the harmony with the larger ecosystem humanity finds itself in.  First…

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