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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 6 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 6 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 6 days ago

Why shouldnt i put my phone in the sa dwich press

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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] 7 points 6 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] 7 points 6 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"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

How many degrees of separation are there between the governor and alcohol production or transportation?

I'm gonna wager 1.

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

Well that settles it

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

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

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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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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] 3 points 6 days ago

Library Genesis is still down powercry-2

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Wow really? Geez

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

what if a cat caught alpha-gal deficiency

[-] [email protected] 27 points 1 week 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] 26 points 1 week 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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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

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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

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Had to leave a movie theater for the first time and ask for my money back because the people behind us were being so fucking obnoxious. I don't mind people whispering here and there, or even talking quietly during loud parts of the film to their friends or whatever I do that, but this shit was outta control. Kicking my seat, partner got hit in the head with someone's backpack as they walked to their seat, had popcorn thrown on him (not purposefully but still), talking at regular volume during the quiet parts. These were grown ass adults too. Fucking absurd behavior

I'm finally turning into an old person. not-listening

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

One of the guys at my work is a massive USA glazer. Was going home after work to celebrate 4th July like a fucking weird loser. We live in Australia.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

You should absolutely add WEB Du Bois black reconstruction to that reading list.

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

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

This may be super obvious to everyone but me, but I feel like the shock and awe of the Trump administration (and the controlled op of the Dems) is intentionally done to break leftist unity and cement peoples positions as liberals to scare them away from communism/anarchism. Cuz with how things are going, I do not know what I would really say to a top-cop stan right now. Like, the "they were doing things to set this up for the Republicans" or "it would've been the same shit but slower" do not seem to hold up in the moment.

I am hopeful that more people are turning left but yikes. I know people that work at Planned Parenthood and they are so fucked. Not by December 2026, they are fucked RIGHT NOW, and there is nothing we can do about it. I'm terrified to go back to school for an MSW right now because who knows if I'll have a job by the end.

I know that during the first Russian Revolution there were still people who has faith in electoralism even though the Tsarist regime had been torturing people and using live ammunition to kill dissidents and yet the revolution still happened, it's still terrifying that it's going probably going to come down to that

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