It seems like Settlers is pretty prolific on the left but there’s very scant info about him online.

  • TheOneTrueChapo [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 years ago

    Gerald Horne is incredibly good, J Sakai has some issues with citations or sharing methodologies as well, imo. However I’ve found Settlers to be a good “wrecking ball” for dismantling perceptions on history so I tend to recommend people start there and then move on to The Counter-Revolution of 1776 or something similar

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      Horne’s good. I do think the counter revolution of 1776 over plays its hand a little bit though. To me the revolution is more about settler colonial revolt over conceptions of freedom Ala Aziz Rana’s the two faces of American freedom, of which a key part is anxiety over slavery law, but not the principle component (and there is no principle component it’s a mixture of several).