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Ep. 4 - Society of the Spectacle: Luigi Mangione & settler socialism
What is the use of “class consciousness” in the imperial core and who is the global proletariate?
In this episode we discuss the fallout of the CEO shooting and the implications of the cultural response.
Originally recorded December 29, 2024
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Show notes:
[22:36] - In the book ‘Settlers’ J Sakai writes:
‘“The special and non-proletarian character of settler artisans and workers (which has been so conveniently forgotten about by today's Euro-Amerikan radicals) was well known a century ago by Europeans such as Marx and Engels. In 1859 Marx wrote of "...the United States of North America, where, though classes already exist, they have not yet become fixed, but continually change and interchange their elements in constant flux..."(30)What Marx saw in this class fluidity was the ultimate privilege of settler society — the privilege of having no proletariat at all. He later pointed out: "Hence the relatively high standard of wages in the United States. Capital may there try its utmost. It cannot prevent the labor market from being continuously emptied by the continuous conversion of wages laborers into independent, self-sustaining peasants. The position of wages laborer is for a very large part of the American people but a probational state, which they are sure to leave within a shorter or longer term."(31) And Marx was writing not about a momentary or temporary phase, but about basic conditions that were true for well over two centuries in Amerika.”’
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Books referenced:
Wretched of the Earth, Franz Fanon
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariate, J. Sakai
Additional reading:
Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
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By On hiatus pending Season 2What is the use of “class consciousness” in the imperial core and who is the global proletariate?
In this episode we discuss the fallout of the CEO shooting and the implications of the cultural response.
Originally recorded December 29, 2024
—
Show notes:
[22:36] - In the book ‘Settlers’ J Sakai writes:
‘“The special and non-proletarian character of settler artisans and workers (which has been so conveniently forgotten about by today's Euro-Amerikan radicals) was well known a century ago by Europeans such as Marx and Engels. In 1859 Marx wrote of "...the United States of North America, where, though classes already exist, they have not yet become fixed, but continually change and interchange their elements in constant flux..."(30)What Marx saw in this class fluidity was the ultimate privilege of settler society — the privilege of having no proletariat at all. He later pointed out: "Hence the relatively high standard of wages in the United States. Capital may there try its utmost. It cannot prevent the labor market from being continuously emptied by the continuous conversion of wages laborers into independent, self-sustaining peasants. The position of wages laborer is for a very large part of the American people but a probational state, which they are sure to leave within a shorter or longer term."(31) And Marx was writing not about a momentary or temporary phase, but about basic conditions that were true for well over two centuries in Amerika.”’
—
Books referenced:
Wretched of the Earth, Franz Fanon
Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariate, J. Sakai
Additional reading:
Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord
—
Subscribe to our Substack to watch, listen & comment: antiamerican.substack.com
Subscribe on YouTube for past video episodes and upcoming livestreams: @AntiAmericanCentury
Find us on Twitter/X: @AntiAmericanPod
Send us your feedback or questions: [email protected]
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit antiamerican.substack.com