The thesis of settlers is that there was basically no white proletariat in the colonies/US pre civil war. It was all middle class Brits who saw a chance to get some stolen land and slaves and basically be the feudal lord that they could no longer be in england. Successive waves of irish and german immigrants basically bought into the settler colonial idea as well and tended to fully support the exploitation and genocide of africans and natives. This is literally "The American Dream", living high off the spoils of colonialism.
I highly recommend reading settlers. Really helps you understand the (often deeply repressed) lineage of liberals and chuds.
And yeah this tweet seems to be looking to push buttons but it's 99.7% accurate lol. Like how revolutionary is the white population in South Africa for instance?
For sure, totally agree. I'm not saying that there are no revolutionary anti imperialist white people lol. Generally we have a hell of a lot to learn and unlearn to get there though. I think a book like settlers is important to read in order to really look this history in the eye and root out some very deeply imbedded shit
The thesis of settlers is that there was basically no white proletariat in the colonies/US pre civil war. It was all middle class Brits who saw a chance to get some stolen land and slaves and basically be the feudal lord that they could no longer be in england. Successive waves of irish and german immigrants basically bought into the settler colonial idea as well and tended to fully support the exploitation and genocide of africans and natives. This is literally "The American Dream", living high off the spoils of colonialism.
I highly recommend reading settlers. Really helps you understand the (often deeply repressed) lineage of liberals and chuds.
And yeah this tweet seems to be looking to push buttons but it's 99.7% accurate lol. Like how revolutionary is the white population in South Africa for instance?
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I'm just pointing out that settler colonialists tend to not be the most revolutionary minded people, to put it lightly
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For sure, totally agree. I'm not saying that there are no revolutionary anti imperialist white people lol. Generally we have a hell of a lot to learn and unlearn to get there though. I think a book like settlers is important to read in order to really look this history in the eye and root out some very deeply imbedded shit
Most white folks in South Africa are not in the capital class, either. The two contexts are different but not that different.
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