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Aboriginals in Capitalist Australia: What it Means to Become Civilised

Department of Social Work The University of Sydney

This paper will argue, first, that the white intruders interactions with the Aboriginal people can not simply be attributed to a lack of humanism on the part of the whites nor be regarded as a manifestation of the whites' barbarism. Rather, these social relations were congruent with what it meant to slowly establish a capitalist civilisation in Australia. Secondly, even though such politics were active in dealing with the Aboriginal people, these policies were, nevertheless, not effective. Thirdly, the paper will highlight the ways in which the Aboriginal peoples' firm insistence on imposing their own codes of meaning, against those laid upon them by capitalist accounting practices, are now calling into question the existence of the whites.

Journal of Sociology, Vol. 20, No. 2, 233-242 (1984)
DOI: 10.1177/144078338402000205


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