#+title: Statue? I hardly know you! | The Antifada

- tags :: [[file:../20200709205051-decolonization.org][decolonization]] [[file:../20200607214217-colonialism.org][colonialism]]

Unfortunately I didn't manage to take enough notes while listening to this
episode, but these are the highlights from what I remember:

* Notes
- [[file:../20200709205144-abraham_lincolon.org][Abraham Lincolon]] oversaw one of the largest land-grabs of Native American
  lands in US history
- Civil War veterans waged war with Native peoples at previously unprecedented
  rates
- The [[file:../20200709205236-united_states_civil_war.org][Civil War]] was only won because, as [[file:../20200709205258-w_e_b_du_bois.org][W. E. B. Du Bois]] said, slaves in the
  south essentially went on strike
- Native Americans, like any other people under [[file:../capitalism.org][capitalism]], have a possibility
  of being subsumed into the capitalist system
  + There are Native peoples who have turned to extractive resources as a means
    of using it as a cudgel against their oppressors. They are often forced into
    resource extraction and they never see the wealth of their labor
    - Consider Bolivia and their lithium extraction
  + Native Americans who turn to coal extraction sometimes don't even have power
    for their communities
- Nick says that Native American populations have high amounts of class
  consciousness due to the oppression they've faced
- Nick says that, whatever form decolonization takes, it cannot involve the
  [[file:../20200709205838-westphalia_model_of_nation_states.org][Westphalia model of nation states]]
  - He also believes it must involve moving beyond capitalism