Seriously, I am unable to really find much about them outside of short lines from Marx and Mao about their potential destructiveness among other things, but I still do not really know what that “class” is. It seems to refer to the poorest members of society that includes unemployed, criminals, homeless, etc… And are they really so incapable of being utilized in revolutionary activities as they are portrayed?
Edit: By “destructiveness”, I refer to how Marx and Mao portrayed them as people that are not considered reliable allies in any proletarian revolution (though even this understanding might be wrong because I think the explanations about them are vague).
“Internally colonized”? I have never heard of that phrase before… I get the settler-colonialism of Native Americans, but I have never read anything about Black people being internally colonized.
We ran out of natives for forced labor and because it was also their home they were more resistant to being forced laborers (in short). It was easier to move africans across and entire ocean and make them slaves instead. Africans took the place of the “colonial subject” in the US and are for most of their history have been treated as such by white settlers. I think “internal periphery” is a better term than internally colonized but they both do the job. They remain a more exploited type of worker because of racism basically. You should read fanon, Black Skin, White Masks is great
Indigenous Americans also seemed less immune to Anglo illnesses, so a lot simply died.
Appreciate the recommendation!
It’s basically the theory that underlies Black nationalism and internationalism; racism is based in an economic system whereby colonized peoples may be superexploited in their ghettos and through prison labor and with unequal application of the law. The colonial situation is what creates upper and lower racial castes in the first place, and that racial caste aligns them more or less with the colonial situation or against it. There are also compradores who are elevated above their racial caste for their usefulness towards the colonial project, and in the era of neocolonialism they’re even elevated to positions in government.
It’s sort of a political project to unite the Black liberation struggle with other anti-imperialist liberation struggles around the world.
Compradors do sound like a certain group in people in America… though they are usually called sellouts.
In my last three and current neighborhood, they certainly seem to be.