![]() ![]() Several leftist groups are critical of the book. Arguing that the white working class possesses a petit-bourgeois and reformist consciousness, the book posits that the colonized peoples of the United States constitutes the proletariat. Settlers argues that the class system in the United States is built upon the genocide of Native Americans and the enslavement of Africans (referred to as Afrikans throughout the book) and that the white working class in the United States constitutes a privileged labor aristocracy that lacks proletarian consciousness. The book was influenced by Maoist thought, and has in turn influenced Third-Worldists, in particular Maoist–Third Worldists. Sakai that looks at the history of the United States of America (referred to as Amerika throughout the book) from an anti-imperialist and non-white perspective. ![]() Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat is a 1983 book credited to J. ![]()
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