Hypothetical question- indigenous peoples.

[ComradeMan]

Imagine you are the revolutionary government of a hypothetical country in a tropical region.

Your revolutionary movement has just successfully ousted a classist, capitalistic and statist regime and you are trying to build socialism in your country.

In the jungle areas live indigenous tribes who have not had much contact with the outside world.

The indigenous tribes practise a traditional way of life with elders, chiefs and an animistic religion along with jungle agriculture and hunter-gathering. They are also semi-nomadic.

Your country is poor and you desperately need resources in order to feed and fund the people of the coastal cities whom you have just "liberated".

You know that the jungle is a great ecological treasure but you also know that there are vast mineral reserves in the jungle areas.

What do you do?

[Havet]

Imagine you are the revolutionary government of a hypothetical country in a tropical region.

Your revolutionary movement has just successfully ousted a classist, capitalistic and statist regime and you are trying to build socialism in your country.

In the jungle areas live indigenous tribes who have not had much contact with the outside world.

The indigenous tribes practise a traditional way of life with elders, chiefs and an animistic religion along with jungle agriculture and hunter-gathering. They are also semi-nomadic.

Your country is poor and you desperately need resources in order to feed and fund the people of the coastal cities whom you have just "liberated".

You know that the jungle is a great ecological treasure but you also know that there are vast mineral reserves in the jungle areas.

What do you do?

I don't think i would ever accept a position of governance over people, but I guess that in that scenario I would go talk with ALL the indigenous tribes and work out contracts of trade wherein they would let us explore X percentage of their reserves in return for Y percent of some of the products we would create with those reserves, or perhaps some exchange in scientific knowledge or empirical evidence that they may require.

[Kwisatz Haderach]

I would engage in negotiations with these indigenous tribes based on the principle that the jungle belongs to them and we may use it only if they agree to let us use it. I would of course try to persuade them to agree, and I would offer them all the benefits of socialism - free education, health care, modern technology and so on. But if they say no, then their decision must be respected.

Also, I would insist that they must reach their decision by democratic vote, even if that is not their normal way to make decisions. In other words, I would not let a chief or a ruling group make a choice for the whole tribe.