None of this is a surprise, but still… Compare this with the quote I posted earlier by Lewis Henry Morgan about progress involving a move beyond capitalism:
“The Indian tribes must be dealt with as they are—as Indians and not as thought they were white men—and with patience and forebearance. They are not only barbarians, but in a lost stage of barbarism, immensely below the plane of civilization. They are incapable of acting in the modes of a civilized race, but they are neither devoid of intelligence nor incapable of appreciating the usual incentives to human action. It will be found possibleto stimulate their industry and to lead them gradually into the practice of labor, and with it into an improved plan of life. it is the only possible way to help them to the rescue of themselves. In this work the Indian women will be found to take the initiative, as women have always done in all the stages of human experience and progress in the several families of mankind. The love of property is still a feeble passion in the brains of an Indian; its uses are but little appreciated, and its stimulus is but little felt. Their daily food is their principal concern. The men work with untiring dilligence in hunting and fishing when game and fish are their principal food, but they have no conception of property as the representative of accumulated subsistence. While they undersand the arts of barbarous life, they have but little knowledge of those of civilized life. Any system of management, therefore, must be adapted to their mental as well as physical condition if success is expected.”
— From an Op-Ed in the Nation on Indian Policy in 1876
