Angel Martinez’s Reviews > The World Turned Inside Out: Settler Colonialism as a Political Idea > Status Update

settler colonialism: a process that disperses social distress, concentrated in the metropole, outwards into the periphery/frontier. Capitalism -> social distress -> conditions for revolution (per colonial theorist E G Wakefield).

So if settler colonialism dies, is the only path forward revolution? No wonder Israel remains important to imperialism. Palestine must remain at the heart of all revolutionary movements.

Author associates words like revolurionary/reactionary with upside down and time, while colonialism is a process involving space, that (as the author suggests) can even undo time, because it is a kind of 'release valve' for the social distress that capitalism in the metropole produces

Was not expecting this book to mention several authors I had already previously read: Christopher Hill (read his book on Lenin years ago) and Sacvan Bercovitch (I finished his Puritan Origins of the American Self a couple months ago). Always a pleasant surprise bc im glad others have read what I've read and have elevated the dialogue to write a whole book!

"This book appraises the global history of the exchange between emplaced and displaced transformation" (2).