![]() ![]() In fact, rebellious counter-culture dope smoking Nam vets. The young white guys in our department were pretty good. Like many radicals who struggle as organizers, i had wondered why our very logical "class unity" theories always seemed to get smashed up around the exit ramp of race? At the time i'd quit my fairly isolated job on the night shift as a mechanic on the railroad, and was running a cut-off lathe in an auto parts plant. Although people still have a hard time getting used to that – it isn't race or sex that's the taboo subject in this culture, but class. And what was so "new" about it was that it wasn't "inspiring" propaganda, but took up the experience of colonial workers to question how class really worked. JS: Settlers completely came about by accident, not design. ![]() How did this book come about, and what was so new about its way of looking at things? Despite this limitation there are numerous interesting and important points so we reproduce it for reference.ĮC: In the early eighties you wrote Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat, a book which had a major impact on many North American anti-imperialists. The author is from a Maoist background, which is a political tendency that libcom generally disagrees with. ![]()
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