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I'm in the first or second chapter of
's Dawn of Everything, and the unearned arrogance the Europeans display to the indigenous Americans is constantly thrown back in their faces."You don't feed the hungry, even when when you have food to spare?"
"The only reason your men obey you is because you compel them with fear of violence?"
He goes on to argue that "enlightenment" ideals of human freedom and equality entered the primitive European brainpan through their experiences with truly free people who actually embraced equality. It's a fun read
Dawn of Everything is the first book I would hand to a lib if I was going to try and turn them into a Marxist. Gotta shake those “west is best” and “muh human nature” brainworms first before you will get anywhere, IMO
I'm a total Graeber shill to libs I know, for basically this same reason. The hard part of getting them to read Dawn of Everything though is that that book is a tome.
It is his easiest read lmao. After Toward an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams and Debt: The First 5000 Years it's a refreshingly short and easy read.
I start with “Bullshit jobs”, because it’s an easy and cathartic read/listen.
Oh man what a fantastic book especially the Indigenous Critique
If you're into the Indigenous critique of colonial capitalist patriarchy / settler society or whatever name you like, As We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a must read. I am telling everyone.
Added to my reading list. Thanks comrade
I've been reading "The Many-Headed Hydra" and it covers a similar idea. However it is focused on the Northern Atlantic and Anglos. They go into some detail about the wreck of the ship Sea Venture and the mutiny to stay free on Bermuda rather than return to class based rule. That wreck actually inspired The Tempest