are you.. perhaps.. ya know.. attracted to the same gender as yourself?
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Oklahoma was the "Indian State" that the so-called 5 Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chocktaw, Seminole, etc.) were relocated to during the Trail of Tears which ended in 1850. The land was chosen for them because it was the eastern edge of the "Great American Desert". These are corn farming nations and they were moved to an unirrigated plain, as you can expect, many starved to death from crop failure.
California and Oregon were valuable for gold, extensive salmon runs, lots of fresh water (in the northern areas) massive forests for logging, and the central valley was formerly a massive lake so the soil was fertile (which was still around until the settlers drained it.).
The last part is that the Spanish had already killed many indigenous people so the number of natives was already low, even then, California peoples were not military cultures like those of the plains and basins like the Diné (i.e. Navajo), the Bannocks, or the Lakota.
The quotes are from the book Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris. We consider this book required reading for Communists in North America. You can find it in the Chunk Luta Library.
Some more facts about transportation between the west coast and the NA east:
- It's around 2000 USD cheaper per container to ship from LA to Memphis through the Panama canal than it is by overland train.
- The railways cost the lives of 1200 Chinese workers (who had already been racially barred from mining labor by California's white working class).
- Of the three primary routes to California (and Portland/Vancouver), most went by boat, despite the boats actually being more deadly due to diseases. The demand for crossing Nicaragua/Panama spurred the development of the Panama Railway, further making the boat trip to central America the fastest and easiest method, still the priciest. Overland was actually considered the safest, but again, settlers that could afford not to, did not want to cross through "enemy territory" to get to California opportunities.
- Lewis and Clarke, as a slight tangent, didn't really have that tough of a time traveling to what would become Portland, no more than usual for overland trips like that. What put them in the most danger was misbehavior towards the native peoples. In one instance, the L&C party threatened natives seeking a toll with a vial they claimed was smallpox to avoid payment.
- Mind you, the 1860 electoral map looks like this. California and Oregon became states before the plains and any of the mountain west was colonized and settled. Many of these areas only became states nearly 50 years after California.
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No, but war does force Capital to engage in planning and economic mobilization. There has also been a vacuum in the market left by western firms and fleeing Russian bougies. This war has not been good in the short nor long term for the Ukrainian economy.
Colonizer Class Collaborationism, the Highest Form of Opportunism
The biggest takeaway of Marx that Day points out is that workers pay rent to our bosses in the form of profit. There's no real difference between paying rent to a landlord, interest to a banker, or profit to a capitalist.
Some other things to point out about the cost of land/land rent. The price of land in the colonies was obviously significantly cheaper (you warlord and basically get it for free, same as the landlords of Britain). The land speculators (colony sellers) were primarily trading land for contracted labor, indentured servants, later sold for slaves directly. In Britain land was obtained by merchants/capitalists in trade of gold (colonial labor) and slaves or through rent (profits, labor). The price of land is labor.
Oh word I did not know the distinction, thanks for the context.
Her channel is especially good because locals show her really interesting local histories.
Like one subscriber on youtube asked her to find his ancestor's home, since the person was Chinese Malay and their ancestor left China for work and never returned centuries ago. She went to the village and asked around and quickly found a distant relative of the subscriber who was able to consult their family history books (which is apparently an extensive Han cultural practice) and found the current owners of the home.
Their line on Hungary 1956 is very wack and full of empire lies
When ur sanctioned so McDonald's "leaves" but the McDonald's means of production are still in Russia so you can reopen McDonald's without most of the money going to America