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Settlers: The Mythology Of The White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern - J. Sakai cracker

A uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anticolonial movements, Settlers was first published in the 1980s. Written by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book established itself as an essential reference point for revolutionary nationalists and dissident currents within the Marxist-Leninist and anarchist movements. Always controversial within the establishment left, Settlers uncovers centuries of collaboration between capitalism and white workers and their organizations, as well as their neocolonial allies, showing how the United States was designed from the ground up as a parasitic and genocidal entity. As recounted in painful detail by J. Sakai, the United States has been built on the theft of Indigenous lands and of Afrikan labor, on the robbery of the northern third of Mexico, the colonization of Puerto Rico, and the expropriation of the Asian working class, with each of these crimes being accompanied by violence.

The counter-revolution of 1776: slave resistance and the origins of the United States of America - Gerald Horne amerikkka

In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne complements his earlier celebrated Negro Comrades of the Crown, by showing that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. In the prelude to 1776, more and more Africans were joining the British military, and anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain. And in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were chasing Europeans to the mainland. Unlike their counterparts in London, the European colonists overwhelmingly associated enslaved Africans with subversion and hostility to the status quo. For European colonists, the major threat to security in North America was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. And as 1776 approached, London-imposed abolition throughout the colonies was a very real and threatening possibility--a possibility the founding fathers feared could bring the slave rebellions of Jamaica and Antigua to the thirteen colonies. To forestall it, they went to war. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in large part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their liberty to enslave others--and which today takes the form of a racialized conservatism and a persistent racism targeting the descendants of the enslaved. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 drives us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.

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This is the exact kind of thing I'd be likely to post

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

July the Fourth Reich

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I hope I don’t say this in an offensive way I’ve had a couple drinks but have one or both of the horror vanguard podcasts always been (openly) trans? I haven’t listened to them a lot and it’s been a long time but I don’t remember that

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I regret to inform you that my father's tv news/Sam Harris meditation and Jocko Willnick Navy SEAL mindset podcast-induced treatler brain rot disease has progressed to the incurable "if they're protesting in the street they deserve to be run over." stage.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

We're so deep in post-truth it's not even possible to satirize anything. How can we make fun of this? It's just so absurdly far in the realm of outrage farming i-cant

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I thought this was just a funny tweet until I realized who wrote it gd what a maroon

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

When it comes to internet of things there’s essentially no ideological distance between myself and a-guy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

It baffles me how libs are able to compartmentalize the manifest horrors currently being perpetrated by the United States and have rah-rah Fourth of July celebrations. Thankfully I didn't have to endure a full-blown party myself, but the contact I did have had me making this expression rust-darkness and doing everything I could not to blurt out my best Maoist Standard English taking-restraint

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The space we were in today and the culture of the area was utterly insane. surrounded mostly by rah rah USA Vinnies, fourth generation nepo babies, and tourists.

the small group of lib family I was with were very toned down in comparison. The most annoying part from them was hearing comments like how progressives should take back patriotism (lol how??) or how this is still nice because it gives ppl an excuse to get together. Some of these arguments/retorts in the face of full blown fascism are so weak and sad and thus they give me hope that neoliberalism is genuinely dying

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Kinda glad I wasn't hit with a wave of Fourth of July posts from people I know.

The couple I saw were pretty toned down, which eh, I'll take that much compared to the past.

Letting down a bit of my mask and made a joke criticizing the US to on of my friends and they took it well.

And I also hung out with a couple of friends and one is usually pretty rah, rah about the US and yet they didn't really say much to that effect today.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you think that's bad, consider how strange it is to see people celebrating in Puerto Rico.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone itt was saying there were Australians celebrating it lmfaoooooooooo unlimited etc etc

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

I mean, as much as Australians live with American military bases on their country and are subservient to the whims of American empire, at least they get to vote for their own government and make decisions about their budget.

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DS9 spoilerPossibly unpopular opinion: Kasidy should have left Sisko after getting arrested for smuggling for the Maquis, and Sisko should have found a new girlfriend. It's too soft and nice that she stayed with him. That plotline should have had permanent consequences.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

it is july 4 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Rejoice western hemoids, yankee birthday is already over in more civilised lands

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (4 children)

New psychologist wants me to get checked for ADHD which requires paying like $7-800 to a psychiatrist…. My brutha in therapy I am already spending almost a tenth of my fortnightly wage to come and see YOU, where will I find this diagnosis money?? For SOME REASON I’VE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO EXPLAIN I am terrible at SAVING or LONG TERM PLANNING

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Why the fuck does a psychologist need you to get an ADHD diagnosis? Its not like they are prescribing medication. That makes me very angry on your behalf I'm sorry

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Sorry sweaty wanting to be stable enough to contribute to your CEOs bank account will cost you 💅 dedicating your life to producing capital for rich ppl is a privilege, not a right

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Wtf you get charged for diagnosis?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Obviously you need to steal the therapy. Only way to make it work

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm so annoyed. I got so much gossip on a billionaire from my talk with maintenance staff/a security guard today and I have nowhere to put it. They're not American so no one here cares, and nobody irl is gonna believe me. It's also not criminal so...

Edit:Like the fact that she sends staff ahead to have the tablecloths measured with a measuring tape to ensure they hang perfectly at events held by otherd won't have an impact because it's not salacious enough and because no one here knows Ane Mærsk Uggla. But it is weird that she does that.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

It's true, I don't know her—but I definitely know of Mærsk! Hard to miss all the ships and shipping containers with the family name on them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Somehow got to do a day trip to edgartown (Martha’s fucking vineyard) today and somehow the amount of murikkka is still surprising. Might be most concentrated area of wealth/power/liberal white supremacy I’ve ever been to - never been more convinced that this system needs to amerikkka.

There’s literally a group of small islands or whatever owned by the Forbes (railroad barons) that no one except their hundreds of family members and their guests can step foot on. It feels like I’m in the belly of the beast. There are so many places you’d think are public but haha no darling you simply can’t go! because of these land hoarding fucks.

honestly wonder all the ways the global south would benefit long term if this area was nuked this weekend

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