Settlers is amazing, the central thesis is instrumental in explaining the apparent contradictions of the political views of the white working class in the United States. Liberals falsely conclude that the white worker must simply be too dumb to support their corporate technocracy even if their policies are technically better. This misattribution of cause stems from the intrinisic lack of systemic and material analysis in liberalism. The second you consider that the United States enjoys the wealth of a global empire and that on a global scale the white worker in the US is much closer to being bourgeois than proletarian, everything snaps into sharp focus. Suddenly you understand why reactionary policies are popular where tolerance and gestures at welfare programs aren’t: because the material conditions of even the most exploited worker in the US is far high than on the periphery of empire. I’m typing this on a machine made in minerals extracted by children, this coffee I’m addicted to was likely farmed by slaves. No wonder we aren’t doing a revolution no matter how bad our material conditions get, the baseline of our material reality is too good and is inherently not as horrible as in the countries this empire exploits. So yeah read Settlers
Settlers is amazing, the central thesis is instrumental in explaining the apparent contradictions of the political views of the white working class in the United States. Liberals falsely conclude that the white worker must simply be too dumb to support their corporate technocracy even if their policies are technically better. This misattribution of cause stems from the intrinisic lack of systemic and material analysis in liberalism. The second you consider that the United States enjoys the wealth of a global empire and that on a global scale the white worker in the US is much closer to being bourgeois than proletarian, everything snaps into sharp focus. Suddenly you understand why reactionary policies are popular where tolerance and gestures at welfare programs aren’t: because the material conditions of even the most exploited worker in the US is far high than on the periphery of empire. I’m typing this on a machine made in minerals extracted by children, this coffee I’m addicted to was likely farmed by slaves. No wonder we aren’t doing a revolution no matter how bad our material conditions get, the baseline of our material reality is too good and is inherently not as horrible as in the countries this empire exploits. So yeah read Settlers