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J. Sakai


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J. Sakai is a revolutionary intellectual with decades of experience as an activist in the U.S. He is one of North America’s most insightful and challenging radical intellectuals, best-known for his work Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat, which remains the essential anti-racist labor history of the united states. Sakai work is grounded in Mao’s politics, anti-imperialism, and in a lifetime of hands-on activism; he has consistently focused on the relationship between “race” and “class” in the american context, from a perspective dedicated to abolishing the united states, capitalism, and white supremacy.

Beyond Settlers, however, Sakai has authored a number of other works, on subjects ranging from movement security, to the nature of
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Settlers: The Mythology of ...

4.17 avg rating — 1,162 ratings — published 1983 — 11 editions
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Basic Politics of Movement ...

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When Race Burns Class: Sett...

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3.93 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
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Learning from an Unimportan...

4.27 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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The Green Nazi - an investi...

3.79 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2002
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The "Dangerous Class" and R...

4.08 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2017 — 2 editions
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The Shape of Things to Come...

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Beginner's Kata : uncensore...

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The Shock of Recognition

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Notes Toward An Understandi...

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“Amerika is so decadent that it has no proletariat of its own, but must exist parasitically on the colonial proletariat of oppressed nations and national minorities. Truly, a Babylon “whose life was death.”
J. Sakai, Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern

“To their white surprise, they lost big time and 58,000 GIs and Marines and sailors and airmen lost their lives as well (though to be sure they each got an engraved line on that spiffy black wall in Washington – ’cause in America there’s always a prize in every box of crackerjacks).”
J. Sakai

“In 1858 Engels sarcastically described the tamed
British workers in the bluntest terms: "The English proletariat is actually becoming more and more bourgeois, so
that this most bourgeois of all nations is apparently aiming
ultimately at the possession of a bourgeois aristocracy and
a bourgeois proletariat alongside the bourgeoisie. For a na- tion which exploits the whole world this is to a certain ex- tent justifiable." (2) Britain was the Imperial Rome, the
Amerikan Empire of that day - a nation which "feasted"
on the exploitation of colonies around the entire world.
Engels, as a communist, didn't make lame excuses for the
corrupted English workers, but exposed them. He held the
English workers accountable to the world proletariat for
their sorry political choices.”
J. Sakai, Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat



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