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What do you all think of Settlers (lemmygrad.ml)

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The book by J. Sakai, not the type of person, hence the capitalization. There are people who say it's too divisive.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

This convo is happening in two places, so I'm going to focus on the other one, except for two points:

The basic premise of Gramsci's theory on Hegemony is that colonial powers bribe the proletariat and use cultural norms to convince their own citizens to consent to their own oppression. Yes, white proletarians are oppressed, that is not in question. What is in question is their ability to recognize and respond to this in a way that is not simply reaction.

As far as the Lenin thing, Lenin actually had a lot of faith (at least in some of his speeches) that the growing labor movement in the US would succeed in bringing about the Revolution if it could align itself with the Comintern. Books like Settlers and Hammer and Hoe go over in detail how American labor movements ran into friction with local populations and within the American Left itself, ultimately weakening itself to the point that capitulation was inevitable at the start of the Cold War. A more robust party could have weathered the storm. But American socialists simultaneously couldn't prevent factionalism and outright racism from splitting the movement, and consistently received pushback from a liberal population that was resistant to change, particularly during the era when FDR's reforms improved material conditions for tradesmen and landowning farmers.