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i really must warn you about this book. the error is in redefining peoples *class* in terms of their *race identity*, which is placing the cart before the horse: it puts the idea or the identity of whiteness as the causal factor that allows a worker to have the same interest as their own boss.

i agree that the identity of whiteness forms part of the ideological complex that keeps workers isolated and impedes their ability to relate to one another. but this is also true of "manhood" and of "straightness", and sakai doesnt do much to unpack those problems.

but going by "settlers", its not that white workers lack class consciousness, its that they are literally bourgeois themselves, lost causes that have no place in a revolution. going by "settlers", the revolution is a racial one, because there really is no "white proletariat" at all. so i recommend you take this book with a hefty shaker of salt.