The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean
eBook - ePub

The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean

How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean

How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression

About this book

The long relationship between America's colonizing wars and virulent anticommunism

The colonizing wars against Native Americans created the template for anticommunist repression in the United States. Tariq D. Khan's analysis reveals bloodshed and class war as foundational aspects of capitalist domination and vital elements of the nation's long history of internal repression and social control. Khan shows how the state wielded the tactics, weapons, myths, and ideology refined in America's colonizing wars to repress anarchists, labor unions, and a host of others labeled as alien, multi-racial, multi-ethnic urban rabble. The ruling classes considered radicals of all stripes to be anticolonial insurgents. As Khan charts the decades of red scares that began in the 1840s, he reveals how capitalists and government used much-practiced counterinsurgency rhetoric and tactics against the movements they perceived and vilified as "anarchist."

Original and boldly argued, The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean offers an enlightening new history with relevance for our own time.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Author’s Note on Terminology
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 Class, Race, Gender, and Empire
  9. 2 “Civilization” versus “Savagery”
  10. 3 Cleansing the Republic
  11. 4 The Guns of 1877
  12. 5 Republicans and Anarchists
  13. 6 The Respectable Mob
  14. 7 Aliens and Mobs
  15. Conclusion: “The Problem of the Proletariat and the Colonial Problem”
  16. Notes
  17. Libraries and Archives Consulted
  18. Index
  19. Back Cover