Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat from Mayflower to Modern

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Settlers is a uniquely important book in the canon of the North American revolutionary left and anti-colonial movements. First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organising in grassroots anti-capitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book soon established itself as an essential reference point for revolutionary nationalists and dissident currents within the predominantly colonialist Marxist-Leninist and anarchist movements at that time. This new edition includes an interview with J. Sakai by Ernesto Aguilar.

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"Settlers is a critical analysis of the colonization of the Americas that overturns the 'official' narrative of poor and dispossessed European settlers to reveal the true nature of genocidal invasion and land theft that has occurred for over five hundred years. If you want to understand the present, you must know the past, and this book is a vital contribution to that effort."
--Gord Hill, author of 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance

"Great works measure up, inspire higher standards of intellectual and moral honesty, and, when appreciated for what they are, serve as a guide for those among us who intend a transformation of reality. Settlers should serve as a reminder (to anyone who needs one) of the genocidal tendencies of the empire, the traitorous interplay between settler-capitalist, settler-nondescript, and colonial flunkies."
--Kuwasi Balagoon, Black Liberation Army

"When Settlers hit the tiers of San Quentin, back in 1986, it totally exploded our ideas about what we as a new class of revolutionaries thought we knew about a so-called 'united working class' in amerika. And what's more, it brought the actual contradictions of national oppression and imperialism into sharp focus. It was my first, and as such my truest, study of the actual mechanics behind the expertly fabricated illusion of an amerikan proletariat."
--Sanyika Shakur, author of Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member

Author Bio

J. Sakai is a revolutionary intellectual with decades of experience as an activist in the United States. He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii.