had a based teacher in HS who taught us about decolonization
This was what I was missing that the big three filled in for me. Actually, I should probably mention Fanon, as well. Nobody really connected for me that almost all those ebil communist revolutions were colonized people rising up against the colonizers. Watching Morales get coup-ed in real time (by a neo-nazi, with Ainez unleashing the military on people) shook something loose, but the Jakarta Method really hammered it home for me; That it was worker uprisings, indigenous people trying not to be fucking slaves. Every history class I ever took hid that shit through abstractions of Great Man Theory, Manifest Destiny, and pure bullshit propaganda. It's a fucking Class War; The Capitalists against the Communists. Nazi and Nazi-adjacent footsoldiers against the People.
This was what I was missing that the big three filled in for me. Actually, I should probably mention Fanon, as well. Nobody really connected for me that almost all those ebil communist revolutions were colonized people rising up against the colonizers. Watching Morales get coup-ed in real time (by a neo-nazi, with Ainez unleashing the military on people) shook something loose, but the Jakarta Method really hammered it home for me; That it was worker uprisings, indigenous people trying not to be fucking slaves. Every history class I ever took hid that shit through abstractions of Great Man Theory, Manifest Destiny, and pure bullshit propaganda. It's a fucking Class War; The Capitalists against the Communists. Nazi and Nazi-adjacent footsoldiers against the People.