Moufawad-Paul cited Settlers as a "subterranean movement text" that is an example of a revival of Maoist thought in the late 20th century at a time that Marxism-Leninism was waning. The Monthly Review describes the book as "preposterous on its face" and "an insult to those whites who have suffered the grossest exploitation and still do." The Communist Party USA says the book "reveals the author’s bias against working-class unity and plays into the hands of the ruling class". Several leftist groups are critical of the book. Arguing that the white working class possesses a petit-bourgeois and reformist consciousness, the book posits that the colonized peoples of the United States constitutes the proletariat. Settlers argues that the class system in the United States is built upon the genocide of Native Americans and the enslavement of Africans (referred to as Afrikans throughout the book) and that the white working class in the United States constitutes a privileged labor aristocracy that lacks proletarian consciousness. The book was influenced by Maoist thought, and has in turn influenced Third-Worldists, in particular Maoist–Third Worldists. Sakai that looks at the history of the United States of America (referred to as Amerika throughout the book) from an anti-imperialist and non-white perspective. Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat is a 1983 book credited to J.
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