Notes on the settler relation

 The settler relation plays a prominant role in the lives of US citizens. It has expanded well beyond a white supremacist ideology and now includes a multicultural protection for the settler colony against imperial targets around the world and internally. The settler relation manifests most commonly as allegience to US nationalism. US nationalism often overrides all other relations an individual or group can hold and prioritizes the interests of the capitalist class. We can think of how the 9/11 attack on the world trade center in NYC and the pentagon in Washington DC was immediately an attack on the American population instead of an attack on US finance and military institution.

The average american does not have an understanding of class structure or of how class is produced. An attack on the bourgeoisie is an attack on all Americans. This points to a wide class collaborationist ideology that US nationalism envelopes and produces. The american first thinks of themselves as a capitalist citizen before they are even human. Private property is prioritized over all life. The only class relations Americans can talk about are between the rich and the poor. Throw in the middle class and we have the mixture for a deadly mythology where people truly believe the US state works in the interests of the American people. The political superstructure throws concessions to the middle class and has done what it can within capitalist policy to maintain a higher standard of living for middle class settlers. The middle class functions to erase any understanding of the working class and seeks to eliminate solidarity between the working class and the lumpenproletariat (a super exploited class who have come to take on the role of "native" and includes native nations in the currret organization of US imperialist class structure.) It devolves our conception of class to simply mean tax bracket. How much is your net worth and yearly salary. This takes the capitalist economy out of the equation when people think about inequality. The question of inequality becomes about access to private property and ability to capitalize off this property. Labor as commodity becomes a poor person thing and social capital, how the neoliberal sees themselves, is how civilized people produce income. Monetize your hobbies, make your personhood into a brand, cultivate your brand and develop a parasocial relationship with your "fanbase" who will give their money. This is a movement to make working class people into petit bourgeois socialites. It ties a large portion of the working class and lumpenproletariat to the interests of the capitalist class as the entire online infustructure and means of distrubution for online content is owned by corporations. This then produces a capitalist ideology that often veers into fascist propaganda. I'm thinking of the myriad of right-wing streamers who are spreading fascist ideas to the youth of America.

The imperial capitalist economy is actively producing the settler relation (hence settlers) today. The hustle culture that so many young people take up, because they must to materially survive, aligns people's ideology with capitalist ideology. Exploitation is the baseline. The capitalist exploits the worker. The petit bourgeois influencer exploits their viewership while they themselves are being exploited by the corporations providing the infustructure to be an influencer. Under an individualistic ideology, people believe they must exploit others in order to survive their own exploitation. The liberal settler ideology of the US helps all of these exploiters justify their actions. And finally, the entirety of America is united as exploiters under US nationalism.

So how can we begin to break down the settler relation? Seems to me the first step is to refuse to participate in the exploitation of others in so far as you can avoid such an organization. We all must participate as workers within the capitalist economy (to be expolited) but we do not have to participate in the "climb the ladder" mentality of US citizens. Rather, we should work to proletarianize the petit bourgeoisie, especially those that are not small business owners and are trying to cultivate some individualistic brand. We can work toward combating the ideology which justifies Americans benefiting from the imperialist actions of the US govt. We can work to eliminate the racist feelings which are produced from fear and hatred. The settler must reject settler colonialism and all imperialism. The settler position is not a permanant position and we can work toward disrupting this relation whenever possible.

Notes on the first 2 stages of revolution

 How are we to begin a concerted ideological attack against liberalism and capitalism? Without control of any mass media and at the whims of corpos deleting our posts, we have no sure way to reach the masses. We of course always have direct access to the masses through direct conversation and meetings. However, at this time, there are not enough committed communists to influence the masses throughout the country. Could we focus on one area of the country? Have as many communists move to one territory and attempt to wedge our way into local politics? This is an option, but will require sacrifice from comrades right from the start. It will also take comrades away from their communities and families, leaving those areas with no resistance. It seems to me that remaining in our local territories is the better strategy long term. This means we must reproduce communists locally until we have enough of us to establish communes all round the country. The fascist capitalist class is currently developing and building "cop cities" where they will train in urban warfare. This not only reveals what they expect but also how they plan to escalate against the people. The fascists always escalate first. But now we need to be the aggressors. The commune can be a direct response to the police state. An armed collective sprouting up from the latent rebellion always present in our oppression. 

The commune can be a short term goal. The direction our ideological war must work toward. It's an expansion of the student camp. It's an expansion of the anarchist occupy movement. This time however, we will not leave the momentum to naturally grow like weeds through pavement. The communist vanguard will cultivate the seeds of revolution and ensure they receive water and sunlight. The commune is the people and the party is the vanguard. The vanguard will coordinate and direct the communes. This will make the communes the mass base which holds the sword against the bourgeoisie, while the Party as the sharp sword tip holds strong at the neck of the Empire. 

How can we reproduce communists? This must happen ideologically and materially. The first stage is to establish reading groups or intellectual circles. Comrades must study first and foremost. Without the direction of science, we will fall into mythology. We will begin to believe that as communists, all our actions are correct, based on nothing but our identity of communist. But not all praxis is correct praxis. When we fail to reproduce the movement, we fail the future of humanity. All actions we take must be reproducible by the entire movement. This is the essence of science - reproducible results. All comrades must be raised to a certain level of knowledge and must be able to reproduce other comrades. This requires many comrades working together as we will all specialize in different field and we all must train each other in all fields. In the early going of revolution, we do not have the luxury of having high level of division of labor. As there is a small number of us, we all must attempt to be trained to a high level in all praxis and theory that will progress the movement. But we will all show affinity to certain aspects of revolution and we individually should work to be masters of those things. Either way, we all must be prepared to be the "next person up". All of this begins with studying the science written thus far, understanding the historical conditions which led us to our current conditions and in conversation and ideological struggle with comrades. The aim must be to raise all comrades to the highest level of readiness. 

The second stage is the beginning of the revolution. We must begin to escalate a culture war against liberalism. There is a bulwark against socialism built into the ideology of capitalism and we must begin to break down this wall. The first issue to overcome in reproducing more communists is this very ideological bulwark. Deciding on specific aspects of liberalism to attack. A concerted effort against one aspect will be more effective than random ideologically disconnected attacks. 

Both of these stages will be happening simultaneously. To grow the movement, we must begin breaking down liberalism. To break down liberalism, we must grow the movement. The better we do on one stage, the better we could do on the other stage. 

I will write more about communes at another time, but I'll say now that we are dealing with an American population that is backwards and defaults to a settler imperialist ideology. Despite american society being corporately advanced, the people are backwards. We have to begin as if Americans have no political knowledge. This more so means they do not understand the ideology they reproduce as politics, but rather they believe it is human nature which produces capitalism and capitalism meditates human nature to produce civilization. Without mass media, communists do not have a way to educate the people. But the establishment of communes, experiments in different social organizations, can show the people a different way and demonstrate the antagonistic contradiction between the proletariat and bourgeoisie on our terms.