Scientific racism for dummies
https://libcom.org/article/when-race-burns-class-settlers-revisited-interview-j-sakai
what Fredy Perlman wrote in "The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism"
footnote 9: I have before me a book-length pamphlet titled The Mythology of the White Proletariat: A Short Course for Understanding Babylon by J. Sakai (Chicago: Morningstar Press, 1983). As an application of Mao-Zedong-Thought to American history, it is the most sensitive Maoist work I’ve seen. The author documents and describes, sometimes vividly, the oppression of America’s enslaved Africans, the deportations and exterminations of the American continent’s indigenous inhabitants, the racist exploitation of Chinese, the incarceration of Japanese- Americans in concentration camps. The author mobilizes all these experiences of unmitigated terror, not to look for ways to supersede the system that perpetrated them, but to urge the victims to reproduce the same system among themselves. Sprinkled with pictures and quotations of chairmen Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong and Ho-chi Minh, this work makes no attempt to hide or disguise its repressive aims; it urges Africans as well as Navahos, Apaches as well as Palestinians, to organize a party, seize state power, and liquidate parasites.
Yeah, I've had a lot of problems reading the book because it takes it as a given that national liberation state socialism from a vanguard party is a desirable thing. The blending of polemics based on that assumption along with a lack of citations on somewhat controversial claims makes it hard to digest.
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