Statue? I hardly know you! | The Antifada

tags : [[decolonization]] [[colonialism]]

Unfortunately I didn’t manage to take enough notes while listening to this episode, but these are the highlights from what I remember:

Notes

• [[Abraham Lincolon]] oversaw one of the largest land-grabs of Native American lands in US history
• Civil War veterans waged war with Native peoples at previously unprecedented rates
• The [[Civil War]] was only won because, as [[W. E. B. Du Bois]] said, slaves in the south essentially went on strike
• Native Americans, like any other people under [[capitalism]], have a possibility of being subsumed into the capitalist system
  • There are Native peoples who have turned to extractive resources as a means of using it as a cudgel against their oppressors. They are often forced into resource extraction and they never see the wealth of their labor
    • Consider Bolivia and their lithium extraction
  • Native Americans who turn to coal extraction sometimes don’t even have power for their communities
• Nick says that Native American populations have high amounts of class consciousness due to the oppression they’ve faced
• Nick says that, whatever form decolonization takes, it cannot involve the [[Westphalia model of nation states]]
  • He also believes it must involve moving beyond capitalism