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u/ElliotNess 1d ago
Even today few comrades know how completely the establishment of the Empire in the Pacific Northwest depended upon Chinese labor.* [*As well as the later waves of Japanese, Filipino and Korean workers.] In fact, the Chinese predate the Amerikan settler presence on the West Coast by many years. When the famous Lewis & Clark expedition sent out by President Jefferson reached the Pacific in 1804, they arrived some sixteen years after the British established a major shipyard on Vancouver Bay - a shipyard manned by Chinese shipwrights and sailors.
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The full extent of Chinese labor's role is revealing. The California textile mills were originally 70-80% Chinese, as were the garment factories. As late as 1880, Chinese made up 52% of all shoe makers and 44% of all brick makers in the state, as well as one-half of all factory workers in the city of San Francisco. The fish canneries were so heavily manned by Chinese - over 80% - that when a mechanical fish cleaner was introduced it was popularly called "the Iron Chink". The fish itself (salmon, squid, shrimp, etc.) was often caught and brought in by Chinese fishermen, who pioneered the fishing industry in the area.
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The issue was very clear-cut - jobs. By 1870, some 42% of the whites in California were European immigrants. With their dreams of finding gold boulders lying in the streams having faded before reality, these new crowds of Europeans demanded the jobs that Chinese labor had created. More than demanded, they were determined to "annex", to seize by force of conquest, all that Chinese workers had in the West. In imitation of the bourgeoisie they went about plundering with bullets and fire. In mining camps and towns from Colorado to Washington, Chinese communities came under attack. Many Chinese were shot down, beaten, their homes and stores set afire and gutted. In Los Angeles Chinese were burned alive by the European vigilantes, who also shot and tortured many others.
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u/Manufacturing_Alice 🔫chinese spy, give data 1d ago
wow the caption is changed too. "trump jianguo is a good soldier of marxism-leninism-mao zedong thought"
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u/Koryo001 Fight, fail, fight again, fail again, fight again... 1d ago
They are really leaning into the JDPON Don thing
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u/Foreverthesickgamer 1d ago
Martin Wolf is still alive? This year just gets worse and worse
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u/MineAntoine 🎉editable flair🎉 1d ago
Martin Wolf, 79, peacefully passed gas in his sleep this morning
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u/Aware-Air2600 1d ago
Idk what yall expect. If the conservatives are already showing sever brain rot, and basically killing the imperial demon known as America; you shouldn’t be surprised by liberals doing… whatever this is. Buckle up because these next couple of decades are going to be wild
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u/Yarktrov THEY COMMODIFIED ESTROGEN, CAN'T HAVE SHIT IN CAPITALISM 1d ago
Just an alternate universe breaching containment into ours, nothing too worrying, just go on as usual.
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u/Ok_Club1602 1d ago
What's revolutionary about turning the Shock Treatment we imposed on the third world and every country subservient to us, onto ourselves and completely dismantling everything for parts to make our Billionaires into Trillionaires?? The imperial boomerang finally came back.
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u/msdos_kapital Chinese Century Enjoyer 1d ago
my on the toilet shitting blood and near death: "my asshole is a revolutionary power"
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u/GlamMetalGopnik Chinese Century Enjoyer 1d ago
Literal Orwellian doublethink from the country that Orwell's crappy story more closely resembles lmao
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u/georgakop_athanas Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communist 1d ago
I fucking wish it was a cultural revolution.
The bad aspect of this Evil Empire's ongoing downfall, is that they go after all anti-capitalists and minorities (e.g. LGBTQI+).
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u/nerdbilly 16h ago
I've seen other right wingers/MAGA claiming that Trump is making a revolution and it's clear they don't know what revolution actually means.
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u/Pallington Chinese Century Enjoyer 7h ago
It's, you could say, a "revolution" against momentum and any conception of lasting progress, a "revolution" that counters the historical ongoing trends instead of attempting to utilize those trends to rebuild momentum.
If only we had a word for that, this kind of, anti-revolution? un-revolution? contra-revolution? This "revolution" that originates from the opposite side of an actual revolution and acts in opposition to it.
What? We do have a term? No, couldn't be.
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