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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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  • LeylaLove [she/her, love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    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.