Settlers by j sakai5/20/2023 Recognition of the US as a “prisonhouse of nations” as a dividing line between revisionism and anti-revisionism, and the consequent primary of anti-colonial struggle to communist politics, is underlined in these discussions. The text is polemical at points, which in part frames Settlers as a critique of attempts within both the Asian movement and wider socialist movement to undermine the Black liberation struggle. What is significant in the differences? Among a number of expanded discussions, Sakai’s original introduction situates the text in a concrete political context – as an anti-revisionist Marxist-Leninist contribution to the Asian movement aimed at fostering and defending a revolutionary class analysis of the United States. The difference between the two introductions is substantial: the introduction included in subsequent editions, including the recent Kersplebedeb republication, cuts over 2500 words. The text here is transcribed from the first edition of Settlers, published under the title The Mythology of the White Proletariat: A Short Course in Understanding Babylon in 1983 by the Chicago-based Morningstar Press. Sakai’s important critical labor history Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat. [LOOP is pleased to publish online for the first time the original introduction to J.
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