u/parwa - originally from r/GenZhou
I know this is more of a Dengist sub than a Maoist one, but I was hoping I could find some insight here as it’s a book I’ve seen praised across many leftist tendencies. I read through some sections of it recently (mostly skipped over the historical stuff because I knew about most of it already) and while I went in with an open mind I’m really torn on it. I’m mostly just unsure of what the conclusion is. If revolution must be led by the colonized, where does that leave everyone else that wants a revolution? Are descendants of settlers supposed to just sit back and wait? Besides, just in terms of pure numbers isn’t that nearly impossible? From my understanding you need mass support to pull off a successful revolution, not just a fraction of the population. I don’t want to just write it off as an op as I’ve seen many others do, because it has some good points, yet I can’t help but think it might be. It seems like both a great way to get people of color to distrust white leftists and refuse to organize with them, and to get white leftists to refrain from organizing in fear of speaking over the colonized. I also feel like it kinda fails to take manufactured consent into account. What are your thoughts on it?

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      u/parentis_shotgun - originally from r/GenZhou
      Settlers is a US history book, and the existence of fanon doesn’t mean you shouldn’t read sakai.

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      u/parwa - originally from r/GenZhou
      I’ve heard to read Fanon, haven’t given him a shot yet.

      clean your own backyard first, then build pragmatic relations with black nationalist/communists political organs

      I suppose my question there is how do we organize a white proletariat on its own without essentially advertising a whites-only leftist group? Should we not be striving to build a rainbow coalition? Does this not only serve to divide the left further?

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        u/champ1337 - originally from r/GenZhou
        >I suppose my question there is how do we organize a white proletariat on its own without essentially advertising a whites-only leftist group?

        in every state / city / neighborhood communist political organs should reflect the average working person living there on the basis of class.

        naturally you get some locations where communist orgs are going to be 90%+ white in locations where only white people live.

        in every state / city / neighborhood Black Nationalist communist political organs should reflect the average working person living there on the basis of national liberation struggle first and foremost class.

        >Should we not be striving to build a rainbow coalition?

        you can get to that point when all communities are organized and they can form strategic and practical alliances together against a common enemy. In other words, they form a coalition. We also share goals between white and black, like the question of land.