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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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[–] KuroXppi@hexbear.net 2 points 42 minutes ago* (last edited 36 minutes ago)

Driving at night is such a uniquely stressful and miserable experience.

Me, with astigmatism and nightblindness in a tiny hatchback trying to merge at 110 on the freewayscared

The ford ranger raptor in my rear view biden-harbinger

Like literally I've just parked and I think i want to cry. I hate it i hate it i hate it. LED headlights and high-raised utes have made it almost impossible for me to drive at night safely.

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Iranian man still supports Trump despite wife and entire ethnic group being targeted by ICE

It's got to be a cuckold fetish.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

The gusano mind knows not brainworms, for it is only worms contorted into sentient form.

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

Average eu4 strategy

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

miss "y'all" discourse

miss me with y'all's discourse

miss y'all's discourse

trialectics

[–] CrispyFern@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago

Khorne only asks for two things; blood and skulls. Best part? They don't even have to be your own!

[–] CocteauChameleons@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Idk how Guadians of Galaxy 3 has such high ratings that movie was horrendous

I also just watched the 1:30 minute trailer for Tron Ares and I'm so confused, how did they fuck up such an easy movie to make. Why did they cast that soulless ghoul as the main character?

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago

Transfer lex luthor to marvel comics and he will be elected as the Fuhrer of america with 99% approval rating (99% of marvel citizens are hitlerites towards supers).

[–] gay_king_prince_charles@hexbear.net 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Damn it's crazy how I've probably had more imagined conversations than actual ones. I'm not particularly isolated or non-social, I'm just constantly going through fake scenarios in my head constantly. I wonder if this is maladaptive daydreaming or not; it's not very harmful, but I couldn't stop if I tried.

I do this all the time and I see people pretty regularly.

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Roommates complaining about the way the kitchen looks: a) it doesn't even look particularly bad b) of course it doesn't look sparkling clean, is use it every day, unlike you people who cook once every two weeks, if I only cooked once every two weeks it wouldn't be a problem keeping it sparkling clean, but I cook every single day, multiple times a day, you wouldn't keep it sparkling clean if you cooked more often either

Kinda hate these guys

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Never really cared about "x person faked their way to college" scandals. University students openly admits they use chatgpt/ai to their essays/thesis on graduatiob cerememoby now no one really cares they just want something in the resume for jobs.

Does anyone know the meeting rules that Communist parties in AES countries use, like China for example? Do they still use Robert's Rules or do they structure their meetings differently?

Just a random thought I had.

[–] jjsandwich8@hexbear.net 4 points 4 hours ago

Got buzzed and watched a firework show. Kinda meh tbh, but whatever

[–] jjsandwich8@hexbear.net 2 points 4 hours ago

Shitty holiday lmao. You think people would be aware that no one wants to hear this shit this time of night

[–] KnilAdlez@hexbear.net 5 points 5 hours ago

I am certain the screenshot will have a million and one uses on this website

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 11 points 7 hours ago

July the Fourth Reich

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 7 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 12 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 12 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 7 points 7 hours 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

[–] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 15 points 9 hours 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

[–] lmfaMAO@hexbear.net 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours 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

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 9 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

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

There were people celebrating Fourth of July in London when I visited.

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 4 points 7 hours 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.

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 5 points 8 hours 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.

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 8 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Wisp@hexbear.net 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 2 points 6 hours ago

I don't know anything about this podcast but I searched something up and they popped up unexpectedly: @thelitcritguy@hexbear.net they were on here at some point!

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