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   Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-2025 14:04:49 JST Abolisyonista

   I'm not actually aware of any work—Marxist, anarchist, Black radical—that deals with Haiti in terms of communization theory, in terms of the only example in history of a self-emancipation/self-abolition of a whole class, that being the enslaved. It's part of my current writing.

   CLR James, of course, touches upon it in BLACK JACOBINS, but his particular focus, bordering on obsession, on Toussaint L'Ouverture glossed over the fact that he and his successors like Jean-Jacques Dessalines reimposed forced labor!

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     ineffective altruist (tsvga@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-2025 14:08:42 JST ineffective altruist

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     @abolisyonista Black Jacobins has been on my "to-read" list for a while, do you think it's worth reading at all?

     your topic sounds interesting and I look forward to it

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     Abolisyonista (abolisyonista@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-2025 14:21:24 JST Abolisyonista

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     • ineffective altruist

     @tsvga BLACK JACOBINS is absolutely phenomenal, yes. I have problems with it, but it lays the foundations for a coherent class perspective on the Haitian revolution. Johnhenry Gonzales's MAROON NATION is a phenomenal follow-up (practically a spiritual sequel), looking into self-activity of postemancipation maroon peasants that resisted state power and the coherence of commodities.

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     ineffective altruist (tsvga@ni.hil.ist)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Oct-2025 14:26:22 JST ineffective altruist

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     @abolisyonista thanks for the recommendation!