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🗓️ 1 December 2023
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We read chapters X and XI of Settlers about the decline of the CPUSA and postwar settlers parasitism on a global scale.
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0:00.0 | To their white surprise, chapter 10. |
0:11.5 | To your white surprise, I wasn't recording the last five minutes so we're going to have to start from the beginning. |
0:16.0 | To my white surprise as I enter our 15 of my work day, we're back at it. We are settlering. We are embracing our inner settler and |
0:27.7 | our inner anti settler. We're doing decolonism. We are doing what everybody said in the past because I forgot my book on my long |
0:38.0 | subway ride to work today. I am hashtag readsett.orging on my phone from the website the |
0:46.9 | HTML copy of it which did so much to spread |
0:50.3 | Sakaiism over the last 15 years or so. And a shout out to res settlers.org hopefully we'll get the |
0:55.9 | webmaster on by the end of this series but also we're going to critique the the |
1:02.0 | socaiism that flowed from that in this discussion about chapter 10 and 11. |
1:08.8 | Chapter 10 is the 1950s repression and the decline of the Communist Party USA where you know Sakai as a |
1:16.4 | as a Marxist Linist as a Stalinist as a Maoist saw the Communist Party USA USA as having a revolutionary period or a revolutionary |
1:26.8 | potential for a time that |
1:31.8 | they squander through revisionism and you know ultimately their failure he would argue |
1:40.0 | to support third world revolution. |
1:42.1 | They're settlerism, ultimately, right? |
1:44.0 | So in his mind, CPUSA is bashed against the shoals of American settlerism |
1:52.0 | and can't rise above that to support nationalist movements like |
1:56.6 | Puerto Rican independence nationalist movements like the American Indian |
2:01.8 | movement and others right they remain a settler enterprise. |
2:07.2 | So absolving Stalin of course. |
2:09.8 | Yeah we'll get into that like some other reasons the CPUSA declined besides what he mentions. |
2:14.4 | But to summarize his argument a bit here, he points out that when the CPSA was formed, about half of it were immigrants who didn't speak |
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