Kaffe @ ProbablyKaffe @lemmygrad.ml

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Tamils have lived on the Island for over 2000 years and their angst against the Republic is for issues in the last two centuries with land grabs and displacement targeted at them. Referring to them being "colonizers" is very irrelevant to the struggles in the country.

Using python makes it much easier to maintain scripts especially if they are useful for many people. I like bash for adhoc stuff on my machine or my sandbox, but most of my coworkers are not strong in it so it's not good for prod ops.

Rural land is organized in communes, you can move to the countryside from the city, but you must be invited into the commune or rent from it as a tenant, costing you for the privilege of using their land.

The cities are only so big as they are developed, and growth takes time and energy. Due to the market, living in the cities costs more, so you can move from the countryside to the cities, if you can afford it (i.e. stable job), which is hard because the city can only plan for so many jobs in any given time.

Moving like that is difficult, and is more expensive than staying put, because the real economic cost of such a move has an expensive impact on the whole economy. This applies everywhere, which is why some lineages haven't left Southside Chicago or South Central LA since it those neighborhoods were redlined, and the life expectancy is almost a decade shorter than the metro average:

Movement only "feels free" in the US, because much of the population is able to pay for the freedom of movement (using surplus labor).

This system is also partially why many of the big cities are provinces in their own. It gives provincial, and hukuo powers to the urbanites to decide how they want to grow (within the constraints of the overall state plan). In the US, instead it's often people with freedom cash pushing out existing urbanites, sometimes into the outskirts, sometimes into more concentrated enclaves, sometimes onto the streets.

LMFAO they got him because he went to the 8chan birthday meetup with gamergaters. They crosschecked that with the Gab leaks and mfer used his real name behind his RedPanels account.

Native where? If to the Americas you would only really get native pollinators like bumble bees and butterflies, unless a honeybee farm or feral hive is near you and they need the nectar, even then they might not even be adapted to get it.

Getting native pollinators is a GREAT thing.

Sibling have you seen the submarine drama lmao, that's was sign number 1.

The US-CA-UK-AUS-NZ bourgeoisie is essentially unified. The Canadians and Aussies mine, the Brits finance, the Americans fix the markets, and they'll all move to Kiwi-Occupied Aotearoa when WW3 starts.

btw is there a feature of alt text for images on this site?

The author btw

Thread from a Diné comrade: https://twitter.com/majerle_lister/status/1743758429184049393?t=0Qu6VI20jfsrThfLOCx1kA&s=19

It's Kluxism, the self apologizing.

Oklahoma was the "Indian State" that the so-called 5 Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chocktaw, Seminole, etc.) were relocated to during the Trail of Tears which ended in 1850. The land was chosen for them because it was the eastern edge of the "Great American Desert". These are corn farming nations and they were moved to an unirrigated plain, as you can expect, many starved to death from crop failure.

California and Oregon were valuable for gold, extensive salmon runs, lots of fresh water (in the northern areas) massive forests for logging, and the central valley was formerly a massive lake so the soil was fertile (which was still around until the settlers drained it.).

The last part is that the Spanish had already killed many indigenous people so the number of natives was already low, even then, California peoples were not military cultures like those of the plains and basins like the Diné (i.e. Navajo), the Bannocks, or the Lakota.

The quotes are from the book Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris. We consider this book required reading for Communists in North America. You can find it in the Chunk Luta Library.

Some more facts about transportation between the west coast and the NA east:

• It's around 2000 USD cheaper per container to ship from LA to Memphis through the Panama canal than it is by overland train.
• The railways cost the lives of 1200 Chinese workers (who had already been racially barred from mining labor by California's white working class).
• Of the three primary routes to California (and Portland/Vancouver), most went by boat, despite the boats actually being more deadly due to diseases. The demand for crossing Nicaragua/Panama spurred the development of the Panama Railway, further making the boat trip to central America the fastest and easiest method, still the priciest. Overland was actually considered the safest, but again, settlers that could afford not to, did not want to cross through "enemy territory" to get to California opportunities.
• Lewis and Clarke, as a slight tangent, didn't really have that tough of a time traveling to what would become Portland, no more than usual for overland trips like that. What put them in the most danger was misbehavior towards the native peoples. In one instance, the L&C party threatened natives seeking a toll with a vial they claimed was smallpox to avoid payment.
• Mind you, the 1860 electoral map looks like this. California and Oregon became states before the plains and any of the mountain west was colonized and settled. Many of these areas only became states nearly 50 years after California.
  

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Colonizer Class Collaborationism, the Highest Form of Opportunism

The biggest takeaway of Marx that Day points out is that workers pay rent to our bosses in the form of profit. There's no real difference between paying rent to a landlord, interest to a banker, or profit to a capitalist.

Some other things to point out about the cost of land/land rent. The price of land in the colonies was obviously significantly cheaper (you warlord and basically get it for free, same as the landlords of Britain). The land speculators (colony sellers) were primarily trading land for contracted labor, indentured servants, later sold for slaves directly. In Britain land was obtained by merchants/capitalists in trade of gold (colonial labor) and slaves or through rent (profits, labor). The price of land is labor.

Their line on Hungary 1956 is very wack and full of empire lies

Settler class only leaves when settler colonialism does. Decolonization takes a long time so settlers will remain. Like in SA the settlers can hand over state power and remain settlers while keeping their stolen property. We won't make that same mistake and tbh that mistake only happened because the US exists, for our turn it won't.

The settler identity is clearly less mutable than property relation to production. One does not simply change nationality, nor their "race".

There are more prisoners than people in the military. There are 40 million Africans in the US alone, and we have the historical impetus in national liberation, so do the indigenous nations who also outnumber the US military. The class structure of the military also places most of the colonially sourced soldiers as the majority of enlistees. The US military shipped disabled black men to Vietnam because they couldn't field white middle class men. Settlers just won't fight and if we use Indigenous examples against the US we can see many battles won by smaller indigenous armies than their European opposition. From this history we also see rapid class struggle and alliances within the indigenous peoples and the largest ones had defeated the settlers multiple times with the settlers resorting to ecocide and slaughtering camps of women and children. 40 million buffalo killed to defeat the Oceti Sakowin, this would blowback as the dust bow btw.

As we see in Palestine, settlers only feel powerful when they can shoot children, whether IDF soldier, a US cop, or someone like Zimmerman. Mass support from settlers is that variable we shall not seek "perfection" of. They will join us when they can see the writing on the wall. For now we move building our own communities up on the basis of trust and cooperation. Which btw, native nations are already providing services and jobs to settlers and the BP fed kids of any color. We focus on the most oppressed segments of society and the ones with historical impetus for fighting against Imperialism, something Labor Aristocracy doesn't have until the conditions strip them of that title. We focus on youth of any background as well, as youth always have the opportunity to change the world for the better.

We just won't make the mistakes of relying on settlers again. Even in the wars of the past there were settler allies who betrayed us, so we prepare our revolution for such events. Simple as.

This Haywood piece, while I find much lacking, tackles the root of MLism applied to Turtle Island. The USA is a settler state and the bastion of Imperialism, outside of fleeing and fighting on the side of 3rd world workers, there isn't much Communists here can do besides fight the US from inside. There are specific on continent forces that uphold global Imperialism and allow the US to behave the way it does, and indigenous people are at the fore-front of contesting US, Canadian, and Mexican monopoly extraction that fuels empire. So even from a tactical standpoint, Communists are failing the climate and the victims of imperialism by ignoring contests at home and not supporting indigenous nations. Africans in the US like natives are subject to genocide, and have a historical orientation against the settler state. Like Haywood says an African contest in the western continents will shred America to pieces, giving our comrades around the world a chance to breathe, build up, and assist us in defeating empire. The CPUSA failed to vanguard the 50s and 60s and the root of this is revisionism that started in the early 50s. By tailing the Liberal Assimilationists on the Negro Question the CPUSA had in actuality supported the slow genocide of African cultures for the safety of Imperialism, since then where have we found ourselves? Mass institutionalization of Africans, mass sterilization, mass homelessness, mass displacement, and our leaders murdered, just as Haywood predicted. The counter revolution against Africans during the second Red Scare ushered in the uni-polar world, we must see that the failures of socalled vanguards here had global consequences.

Well bickering over AES is what settler Communists do best, because they don't study conditions. We colonized Communists are just being up front in saying that we don't believe a majoritarian revolution that settlers think must happen will ever happen, and that the revolution will come from the bottom segments of the masses and that most of the settler population will go where the wind blows. Why do we think this? Because the average settler worker in the US is not a productive laborer and is actually staffing the Imperialist distribution network. The White Proletariat? article covers this in the 80s and 90s but the situation has not significantly changed besides even more workers being white collar. First things first we will destroy the American and later the Canadian, and Mexican states and we will not allow the settlers to rebuild a state. The JDPON will necessarily be built by the nat-lib struggles and Americans will never have a sovereign state again. These are facts that cannot be overcome because allowing Americans a state is a reformation rather than a revolution.

The primary contradiction is settler colonialism, if this is not tackled then we have not succeeded in revolution. So we know what goals are mandatory, we don't expect perfection, but we will hold settlers to high standards before they touch revolutionary power.

I mean, you're free to develop a theory for how settlers can achieve socialism, but again we do not wait around and our theory does not rely on their support. We have yet to see one come out of the settler (or Imperialist European) working class for its 300 year existence. If somehow America becomes socialist we still fight them for Land Back, that's not gonna stop, we are building our revolution and the standards are not to be defined by settlers. Assimilation is genocide and our revolution is to stop genocide, so reformed America is not enough.