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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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[-] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago

I am going to have my first paid vacation in my life in a few months, took me some decades to find a job that provides this.

And since I've been doing full time studies with work for the past three years straight, no vacation or break, I figured I should really actually go somewhere and not just sit in the same chair I always sit in spoonless.

Looked at all the insanely expensive hotels and such. Realized I'm really not interested in that stuff, also my pay is pretty shit so can't afford to do a week of any hotel. But also, nah.

Honestly I just want to see the stars with no light pollution again and listen to the sea and silence. So I found a really cheap retreat type thing on a remote island where you can still see the milky way on a clear night. This is what I will do, I'm so exited.

There is nothing there, no shops or anything. Under 20 people live there out of the summer touristy season. There are more sheep than people! There are ghost stories and old viking ship routes to see. I bet it's amazing during a storm (be careful what you wish for, lol).

It's going to be so late in the autumn that I will get to experience real darkness at night again, grew up on an island so I miss it.

And the ship there is public transport so it's free.

It's going to be so nice.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

That sounds so amazing, I hope its an incredible trip for you, you deserve it after putting in all that hard work!

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Why shouldnt i put my phone in the sa dwich press

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Bought a used ebike online, just rode it across town to the service shop that can do an ownership transfer

The pedal assist is sick as hell, my thicc ass can probably get back into shape on this bad boy

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Big Darby News: eyewitness reports of her doing a big stretch and yawn from her fort and looking like a hermit crab boss in a jrpg. For sure each paw and the head would be different targets and the paws would respawn after a set amount of turns but you need to keep the paws at bay cause one of em heals the head and the other has a charge attack that can party wipe.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Playing a game with active moderation where toxic players get quickly dealt with is euphoric.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

This but it's Hexbear

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Just saw a bunch of Luigi graffiti, and while I appreciate the vibe I want to point out to the artist that we do have universal healthcare here.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Eh, Luigi isn't a symbol just for health care

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

The British on March 17th 1939: shock The Soviet Union exists!

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On March 17 [1939] the British Government suddenly remembered the existence of the Soviet Union

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On March 17 [1939] the British Government suddenly remembered the existence of the Soviet Union and inquired what its attitude would be toward the Hitler threat in Eastern Europe. Moscow replied promptly and proposed an immediate conference between Britain, France, the U.S.S.R., Poland, Rumania and Turkey to consider how to resist German aggression. This was exactly and obviously what was urgently needed. Nothing less than a drawing together of all the threatened states could be of any avail. Rumania was under intense pressure to turn over her economy to Germany and the quickest action was needed.

The Cold War And Its Origins, 1917– 1960. Vol. I, 1917– 1950 By Denna Frank Fleming, Chapter 5 :::

[-] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

So, a tech bro I know just told me that "FOSS is inherently capitalist exploitation" and I'm so confused.

Context is me saying that Linux is a better way to which he said that all corpos use linux for final hosting because it's free to exploit.

And I think this is comparing apples to oranges, but I know fuck all about the tech world so help?

Edit. We continued the discussion. I get it now. Contradictions, contradictions everywhere. ooooooooooooooh

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Copyleft licenses help without mitigating the full extent through other means.

Telling angry libertarian tech bros that you believe freedom for the Commons is more important than freedom for the individual is always fun though as they scream at you about your licenses for whatever application you've made that they want to parasitically extend without sharing code and selling to others as a service.

One of my favorite things.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

Housemates driving me crazy as always

Rant about housemates CW: meat

The past 24 hours have really got me going, some of it is pretty big, some of it is minor but feels a lot worse than it actually is because of said major stuff.

So my night starts off with me getting home and finding that almost all my leftovers from the giant fourth of July meal I made are gone. Looks like I'm gonna have to actually cook after my double shift. So I go ahead and start putting up dishes from the drying rack so I can do dishes as I cook. Reach in and immediately cut myself on a broken piece of ceramic at the bottom. Someone broke a bowl and just left the broken pieces there for me to blindly find. One of my good housemates grabs me a bandaid, I calm down and continue making my food. Look in the fridge and notice my chicken breasts I pulled out of the freezer aren't in there. Someone put them in the freezer, and broke the Styrofoam container they came in, so now my chicken is freezer burnt and there's frozen chicken juice all over the freezer that nobody else is going to clean up. Spend 30 minutes thawing my chicken in the microwave, I don't get done with dinner until 10:30, even though I gotta be up at 7 and sleep off my anti-psychotic. Eat, go to bed slightly annoyed.

Wake up this morning and go to the kitchen to make some coffee. Someone has been stealing my coffee and left me with barely any in the bag, obviously not finishing it because they want to hide that they're taking it. One of the good housemates makes coffee from their stash, so I'm still annoyed but at least there's still coffee. I look in the sink, someone finished the beans from fourth of July in the middle of the night and fucking left the Tupperware in the sink for me to clean.

This is almost all done by the only cis person in the house btw. Some straight guy that thinks he's bi because he likes trans women. This is the same fucker that will call me multiple times a day at work trying to get me to lend him money for cigarettes, spends 13 hours a day on the couch watching Ridiculousness and listening to butt rock, constantly slamming doors because he's pissed over minor things.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Oh wow, that sounds so stressful .. I’m sorry your housemates are driving you up the wall. Thanks for giving a heads-up about the meat mention, I really appreciate it.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Good lord that sucks. I can relate. 90% of the housemates I had in my life were solid, but the bad ones I had were tough to deal with. That’s why I’m currently paying 40-50% of my wage on rent, after breaking up and moving out of my ex’s place I just couldn’t face going back into sharehouse roommate Russian roulette lol.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I've been watching the postering wars between Zionists and activists in my city over the past two years. Basically the good guys have won all over the city as a lot of overall Zionists have shut the fuck up about Israel.

However there is this one corner that is always plastered with the most deranged zionist cope and I do my groceries there. As looking forward to reading what dumb shit they're posting now to see some comrade scraped every pole free of their bullshit stalin-feels-good

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Is it speaking in Melon's POV? Yikes.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Well that settles it

[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Remember that scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark where the Nazi with the glasses grabs the hot medallion

I was reminded of it after I absent-mindedly grabbed a cast iron pan that had come out of the oven just five minutes earlier

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I wish someone would "do something" about the governor of Virginia because i'm kinda pissed off that they've been teasing recreational weed sales for OVER FIVE YEARS NOW only to finally pass a law only for the governor to say "no we're not gonna do that actually"

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

geordi-yes running 13k even though it's hot out

geordi-no running so far you shave off the tips of your nipples

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[-] [email protected] 27 points 4 days ago

Guy who thinks Jews run Hollywood because he’s never seen a movie advertise that the director’s uncut.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Yeah, I'm ontologically evil (flirting with mind-body dualism)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://old.reddit.com/r/SocialDemocracy/comments/1fciawj/how_is_donald_trump_worse_than_george_w_bush/

This thread is such a dumpster fire. I really hate people who downplay Bush. Like how are these people supposed to be leftists?

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Online ads are officially worse than TV ads used to be. At least then you knew itd be 5 minutes of ads every 10 minutes which meant you would get up and do other shit for 5 minutes and then come back.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

MY TEN YEAR OLD KITTY JUST FIGURED OUT PLAYING FETCH BY HERSELF! SHE IS BRINGING HER BALL BACK TO ME!

Edit: weve been watching Gundam during play time. Its her Newtype powers

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

i like a band from 25 years ago that makes me way cooler than everyone else around me also even though I've never ever talked to a girl she should recognize how awesome I am and dump her boyfriend for me

teenage dirtbag has only gotten more cringe with time

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I finally installed a bidet at my new place, I am doing anti-doodoo-ass aktion

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Just had a Anakin/Padme meme moment except I was Anakin.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I think we should change the way the word "Federal" is pronounced to "Feral".

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Just saw a redditor making the claim that someone purposely gave Joe Biden dementia by feeding him anti histamines

God I love the internet

[-] [email protected] 26 points 4 days ago

I'm three weeks sober today. It feels like I've fully gotten alcohol out of my daily routine, and I'm starting to coast on new habits now. There's been a noticeable improvement in my depression and energy levels, and my skin is starting to look healthier. My sobriety tracker says I've saved $107 and skipped 45 drinks so far.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

update: one-shot by the horse gacha doggirl-gloom

won an URA with vodka

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Fun labor history tidbit - pre-apprenticeship training programs have their roots in programs created when the building trades in Philadelphia were getting targeted by a radical chapter of the NAACP who were stopping construction demanding black tradesmen be hired on public works projects. The trade unions collaborated with black charity organizations to market these pre-apprenticeship programs specifically to black workers looking to join the trades. Then they still allowed hardly any black workers to actually join the unions.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I spent $100 I don't have on a over shirt and a trench coat kitty-birthday-sad but they looked really good on me

[-] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

At least 'Birthday Party' was kinda funny.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Library Genesis is still down powercry-2

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I did public outreach for my party today and even though we recently had a discussion about how you shouldn't use overly academic language when having a street conversation, my brain crapped out and when I was trying to explain socialism and the phrase "means of production" came out

[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

I also cant help using that term. It feels like not using it just obscures what socialism truly is

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I should stop flirting with people I have no intention of pursuing but to be fair, people need'nt fall for people the same day they meet them.

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