Something that we must not forget in all of this is that the left, and by that I mean socialism in the days that it meant something solid, always had a soft spot for the destruction of native tradition.
I was revisiting a work on Paul Strand, an American and perhaps my favourite photographer, who was an ardent socialist in a world of greater inequality than now, so he might be forgiven for that. However, he noted of the natives of Uist and their Gaelic tradition after a visit in the mid 50's that
"The ancient culture is very important: the people have shaped it, and to a degree it has shaped them, but I think it belongs to the past. Yet to say that this culture is dying, and that the people can only survive through its continued development is to me a romantic and unreal view of historical development."
Quite what he proposed instead is not recorded but this was in the age of American triumphalism so it may safely be assumed that the imposition of US hegemony was what he would have favoured.