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  • Why did other settler nations did have much more succesfull working class, progressive and marxist movements? Everyone in Cuba descended from settlers. Every country in the American continent is a settler nation, many have had all sorts of leftist movements in their history. And why was it necessary that the CIA intervened in Australia to prevent a Jeremy Corbyn-like figure to come to power in the 1970s? Surely, that’s a settler nation which is very similar to the USA.

    The way American leftists talk about their how settler-nations are incapable of having genuine revolutionary activity always reminds me of Bourdieu’s research in to taste and class. He was a French sociologist who researched (among other things) how different strata in society had different tastes, and he came to the conclusion that people, by their objective position in society, came to form certain tastes which just so happened to fit hand-in-glove with their material circumstances. But in that process, they convinced themselves that those circumstances weren’t forced on to them, but it was their own choise. E.g. workers didn’t eat more pork then veal because it was cheaper, no they believed they prefered it. I feel like the “settler nations cannot have a marxist movement”-theory works analogously: the left has been defeated so often in the USA, that it has develloped a theory to explain that position - but that theory isn’t necessarily a good representation of objective reality, it’s just a convenient way of thinking in certain circumstances. And it’s not supported by the evidence from other settler nations.