Status Updates From A People's History of the U...

"800 Creek men had volunteered to help the US army fight the Seminoles in Florida in return for a promise that their families could remain in Alabama, protected by the Fed govt until the men returned. The promise was not kept" (pg 143).

Anti-imperialists would be wise to heed this lesson. Becoming a comprador will not protect you

Have to shelf it for now, so I'm counting it as currently reading- but unsure when I'll have time to pick it up again.

"Were the Founding Fathers wise and just men trying to achieve a good balance? In fact, they did not want a balance, except one which kept things as they were, a balance among the dominant forces at that time" (pg 101)

State as a crystallization of a specific relation during moment of rupture. Reminds me of the TYBW arc. Especially Soul Reapers being known balancers and associated with the SK right arm