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Third Worlds Within: Possible histories of solidarity and struggle A talk by Daniel Widener - Wednesday 13 March. In 1880, Karl Marx wrote to his friend Friedrich Sorge to ask for an update on economic conditions in California. “California is very important for me,” Marx told the founder of America’s oldest socialist party, “because nowhere else has the upheaval most shamelessly caused by capitalist centralization taken place with such speed“. This “shameless upheaval” forms the backdrop for this talk, which takes interconnected processes of African enslavement, Native genocide and mass Asian migration to 19th Century California as a point of departure for examining historic interactions among communities of color, the effect of U.S. racial capitalism upon these communities, and the subsequent rise of multiracial, interethnic mobilizations against U.S. racism and empire. You can read the introduction to the book this talk is based on here:
