Part II: The First War — Indigenous Nations and the Birth of Settler Counterinsurgency Genocide, Dispossession, and the Military Architecture of Empire Before the first African was chained and dragged across the Atlantic, before the first slave patrol rode through Carolina swamps, before the United States called itself a nation—there was a war. A war... Continue Reading →
From Counterinsurgency to Technofascism: Origins of the Colonial Repression State (Part I)
Part I: Origins of the Colonial Repression StateSettler Colonialism, Racial Regimes, and the Birth of Counterinsurgency in the U.S.The United States did not invent counterinsurgency—it inherited, refined, and perfected it as a tool of racial and colonial domination. To understand the evolution of modern policing, surveillance, and domestic warfare in the U.S., we must return... Continue Reading →
Black Power and the Internal Colony’s Revolt, 1954-1969 (Race/Class 101, Part 8)
The Class Rebellion of the Colonized in the Heart of Empire I. From the Shop Floor to the Street: A Colonial Proletariat Emerges By the 1950s, a seismic shift had taken place within the U.S. working class. The descendants of enslaved Africans, once confined to the plantation and the sharecropper’s plot, had become the backbone... Continue Reading →
Black Scare/Red Scare: The Birth of US Counterinsurgency, 1917-1954 (Race/Class 101, Part 7
The empire builds a war machine abroad—and a police state at home I. War, Migration, and the Birth of a New Class World War I didn’t just redraw the borders of Europe—it transformed the racial geography of the United States. As white empires collapsed overseas, the U.S. emerged with more capital, more confidence, and a... Continue Reading →
Racial Capitalism in the Age of Empire 1877 – WWI, (Race/Class 101, Part 6)
Racial Capitalism in the Age of Empire (1877 – WWI)I. Introduction: From Reconstruction to Global EmpireWith the overthrow of Reconstruction, the U.S. ruling class didn’t just restore white supremacy at home—it expanded it abroad. The period from 1877 to World War I was defined by two simultaneous processes:The consolidation of racial capitalism within the U.S.... Continue Reading →
Reconstruction and Counter-Reconstruction: Black Power, White Backlash, and the Battle for Democracy, 1866 – 1876, (Race/Class 101, Part 5)
I. The Closest the U.S. Ever Came to Democracy For a brief moment after the Civil War, the United States stood at a crossroads. The old order—where enslaved labor fueled the plantation economy—was dead, but the new one had yet to be written. For the first time in U.S. history, Black people—formerly enslaved and free—were... Continue Reading →
The Silicon Matrix: Empire’s Brain and the Rise of Technofascism
Section I: From SAGE to Silicon – How the U.S. Military Built the Internet “The Internet was developed by the Pentagon as a weapon of surveillance and counterinsurgency—not as a tool of liberation.” —Yasha Levine, Surveillance Valley They told us it started in a garage. A story of geek savants and dropout geniuses, tinkering with... Continue Reading →
Slavery, Indigenous Wars, And The Racialized Class Struggle Of The 19th Century (Race/Class 101, Part 4)
I. The House That Genocide and Slavery Built By the 19th century, the United States had become the crown jewel of capitalist expansion—a rising empire built on land theft, slavery, and an ever-expanding frontier of human misery. The country marketed itself as the land of liberty, yet its economy depended entirely on unfree labor and... Continue Reading →
Elon Musk: The Architect of Technofascism
Apartheid, Emeralds, and the Invention of a Myth – Elon Musk’s Colonial Origins Elon Musk did not emerge from a vacuum, nor from the mythical garage where all American billionaires are supposedly forged. His origins lie not in Silicon Valley, but in Pretoria, the administrative capital of apartheid South Africa—a brutal, racial dictatorship built on... Continue Reading →
Settler Colonialism And The Making Of The White Working Class In The United States (Race/Class 101, Part 3)
I. How to Build a Settler NationLet’s get one thing straight—capitalism in the Americas wasn’t built by hard-working pioneers. It was built by thieves, slavers, and genocidal land-grabbers. But even the ruling class knew they couldn’t do it alone. They needed foot soldiers—a whole population of people willing to fight, kill, and die to defend... Continue Reading →