Safatle: Indigenous people are always the targets when the State increases the level of extermination.
Vladimir Safatle states in an article that "the fact that indigenous peoples are always the privileged targets when the Brazilian State increases the level of its extermination logic is also an expression of the conflict between two political experiences"; "A conflict in which one must negate the other, eliminate all its traces, erase all its influence. So that we no longer remember how we have always fought against the force of a power that seeks to impose itself in the form of a power that controls everything," he concludes.
247 - Vladimir Safatle, a philosophy professor at USP (University of São Paulo), in article Published in the Folha de São Paulo newspaper, it comments on the book by anthropologist Pierre Clastres, "Society Against the State." "His book defends the idea that such societies were not in some form of earlier stage of social development due to the absence of the State or the absence of an economic logic of surplus production."
"This is the story of men who dragged thousands of Indians along based on a prophetic word, setting them on a migration beyond the tribe's boundaries in search of a land where the risk of degradation produced by power did not exist. This society thus unleashes forces capable: 'Even at the price of near collective suicide, of making the dynamics of the chieftaincy fail, of preventing the movement that could lead to the transformation of the chiefs into kings bearing laws.'"
"Perhaps it is worth remembering these pages, so important for understanding ourselves and our society, at a time when indigenous communities are protesting on the Esplanade of the Planalto Palace, which has been taken over by the National Force. For the fact that indigenous peoples are always the privileged targets when the Brazilian State increases its logic of extermination is also an expression of the conflict between two political experiences. A conflict in which one must negate the other, eliminate all its traces, erase all its influence. So that we no longer remember how we have always fought against the force of a power that seeks to impose itself in the form of an all-controlling power."