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mimissyouuu's review
5.0
i can see this making A LOT of white revisionists seethe so that must mean a lot of its theoretical insights are correct LMFAO!! jokes aside, an incredibly necessary text for examining the failures of american leftism and how intra-class dynamics has been driven by settler colonialism. i feel like this has fundamentally altered how i think about certain elements of american history and the nature of organizing in general. anyways, https://readsettlers.org/ now
noipmahcnoraa's review against another edition
5.0
You’re hard pressed to call yourself a Marxist if you haven’t, or aren’t willing to, read this.
zachcarter's review
4.0
One lens through which I've been intentionally consuming media this year has been psychopathology (and in particular, fascist psychopathology). I think it's really important to understand the base ideological motivations for fascist movements, be they Nazi, Zionist, or otherwise settler. While some of Sakai's conclusions weren't ultimately fully convincing to me, I find his interrogation of what it means to be a Euro-Amerikan settler - and the ultimate strategic implications of its identity vis a vis occupied/internally colonized Afrikans in particular - incredibly important to reckon with. Ultimately, what he wants us to consider are the national modifiers of class relations, which are admittedly understated in a lot of Western leftist tradition, especially in labor. It was laid bare when Fran Drescher, president of SAG-AFTRA, led the charge in the actors' strike this summer, and then went on to cheerlead the fascist Zionist regime's genocidal assault against Palestinians.
Some of the arguments are more compelling than others, but I'd say this is a very important read that can offer some interesting nuggets and insights. It feels like a good companion text for someone who's read Gerald Horne's groundbreaking scholarship.
Some of the arguments are more compelling than others, but I'd say this is a very important read that can offer some interesting nuggets and insights. It feels like a good companion text for someone who's read Gerald Horne's groundbreaking scholarship.
tombomp's review against another edition
5.0
Completely upends the myths of "racism" as some sort of unfortunate transistory phenomenon, the situation of whites as comparable to other groups and the idea that radical movements are some sort of white-only thing. It has problems that are inevitable for a pretty short book - many areas being somewhat rushed through - but it still manages to be pretty comprehensive of what it does cover and to clearly and forcefully show the truth of what it argues. Absolutely essential and it's fucked up (but unsurprising) how little of what's discussed here is considered by the "radical" left and how little follow up there's been on the points raised which are essential to challenging the reality of the imperialist, capitalist system.