It turns out that being a good student of history means having the tools and the means to literally tear apart the narratives of settlers, colonizers, and Capitalist apologists everywhere. Be a history major, be a historian, and write a Settlers for the current moment or something. A more objective view of history written by various anti-capatalists has done more to guide my radical understanding of our present reality than any old French pedophile writing philosophy, even if their stuff is occasionally good. There's no better argument I know for opposing most of western economics, for example, than David Graeber systematically demonstrating that the common formative narratives that we have about the capitalist mode of production are literally the myopic bullshitting of Adam Smith and co.