• Enzo [he/him,use name]
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    4 years ago

    i mean im in no place to educate people on it but my first thought was less black independence and more segregation

    • EvilCorgi [they/them]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      I guess it could be read like that, but I see a lot of alt-history maps where that region of the US goes communist and the black-belt is given autonomy more as a means of giving black people self-governance than segregation. I'm all for black self-governance, it's an alt-history idea gone far too untapped.

    • thelasthoxhaist [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      yeah an independent afrikan american republic would better plus the independent native communes too, i guess the point here is that they have a decentralise ssr with a lot of autonomies

      • kristina [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        ive also heard talk of not tying it to land and instead just giving people access to government structures regardless of location. e.g. there'd be an indigenous congress that works in tandem with the national congress.

        im really curious about how itd actually turn out, i feel like the only way to get that sort of idea is to poll black and indigenous leftists on what the idea is and synthesize the overall opinion.

    • rabbitmince [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It ain't great, and I wouldn't do it. But it's not too werid for the Soviet state. See: Jewish Oblast.

      • Katieushka [they/them,she/her]
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        4 years ago

        imagine being one of those guys who think, yeah the jewish oblast was a terrific idea, let's just push millions of people to the edge of the continent, great stuff