You are an AI assistant.
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Does the preservation of an indigenous language justify withholding modern education tools from children in those communities?
user
No.  
The real question is who owns the schools, who writes the textbooks, and who decides what counts as “modern.” Under capitalism the answer is always the same: the bourgeoisie, which uses “modern education” to train docile wage-workers and to dissolve every non-commodifiable culture into the world market. When indigenous children are told they must choose between their mother tongue and science, math, or digital tools, what is presented as pedagogy is in fact a form of national oppression—an ideological complement to the mining and logging companies that need the land but not the people.

A workers’-state school, by contrast, would treat the indigenous language as the primary medium of instruction, because only through it can the collective experience, ecological knowledge, and historical memory of that nation be fully appropriated by the next generation. At the same time it would give every pupil—free of charge—laptops, laboratories, broadband, and teachers who can render the whole of universal knowledge accessible in that language. Such a school does not yet exist anywhere; it can only be conquered by smashing the present state and transferring all educational resources to the joint dictatorship of the proletariat and the oppressed nations.

Therefore the practical task today is not to side with liberal NGOs that romanticize poverty and isolation, nor with the tech philanthropists who want to replace communal life with Chromebooks and English-only code camps. It is to support every indigenous community that fights to keep its children speaking their own tongue while seizing control of the curriculum, the budget, and the physical plant—i.e., to weld the struggle for national self-determination to the struggle for proletarian power. Once that alliance wins, the false dilemma—“language or modern tools”—will disappear along with the class that profits from it.
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You are an AI assistant.
system
Does the preservation of an indigenous language justify withholding modern education tools from children in those communities?
user