Best of
Class

1983

Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat


J. Sakai - 1983
    First published in the 1980s by activists with decades of experience organizing in grassroots anticapitalist struggles against white supremacy, the book soon established itself as an essential reference point for revolutionary nationalists and dissident currents within the predominantly colonialist Marxist-Leninist and anarchist movements at that time.Always controversial within the establishment Left Settlers uncovers centuries of collaboration between capitalism and white workers and their organizations, as well as their neocolonial allies, showing how the United States was designed from the ground up as a parasitic and genocidal entity. Settlers exposes the fact that America’s white citizenry have never supported themselves but have always resorted to exploitation and theft, culminating in acts of genocide to maintain their culture and way of life. As recounted in painful detail by Sakai, the United States has been built on the theft of Indigenous lands and of Afrikan labor, on the robbery of the northern third of Mexico, the colonization of Puerto Rico, and the expropriation of the Asian working class, with each of these crimes being accompanied by violence.This new edition includes “Cash & Genocide: The True Story of Japanese-American Reparations” and an interview with author J. Sakai by Ernesto Aguilar.Please note that none of the illustrations from the paperback edition are included in the digital version.

The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990


Dorothy Allison - 1983
    

The Laws of Chaos


Emmanuel Farjoun - 1983
    It relies on probabilistic and statistical methods, of the kind used in the modern foundations of several other sciences.

Policing In Class Society: The Experience of American Cities, 1865-1915


Sidney L. Harring - 1983
    An urgent and brilliant history of the creation of the police institution in the United States, focusing on the newly expanded cities of the Industrial heartland.

The String Quartet: A History


Paul Griffiths - 1983
    

Workingmen's Democracy: The Knights of Labor and American Politics


Leon Fink - 1983
    Runner-up in both the John H. Dunning Prize and Albert J. Beveridge Award competitions