What is Occupy Wallstreet?

[Jester]

Tribalism was essentially a primitive form of communism. The Native Americans really had a near perfect communist system before the Spanish came here and Christianized them.

I'm not even sure where to begin. For a start, this is cultural imperialism - you are ahistorically shoehorning an entire continent's cultures and societies into an abstract category dreamed up by some Old White Guy ™ over three centuries later.

Next, it demonstrates a near-total lack of understanding about the functioning of indigenous societies in the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans. It was not perfectly equal - in many societies, especially the more urbanized, classes were highly stratified. It was certainly not utopian. While their ideas of ownership were not familiar to Europeans, that doesn't mean they were Communist, or anything even resembling Communism. The religio-military states that prevailed in Mesoamerica and the Andes more closely resembled Egyptian or Mesopotamian tribute empires than socialist utopias, although even those comparisons are a stretch.

It also shows no understanding of the truly vast range of economic, political, and social systems across the Americas. The Haida had a completely different culture from the Maya, and neither shared anything in common with the Cree. To lump them all together as if they all shared some harmonious utopia is wrong, outdated, and imperialistic.

I'm not even going to go into the question of Christianization, which is not one process, had vastly different effects on different groups (compare: Guaranies or Huron with Araucanians or Sioux!) and was, in many cases, distinct from the imposition of European economic and political order.

-Jester