Topple your idols and question how we might destroy leviathan itself rather than simply demanding a rank-and-file democratization of the spoils of colonization.

Historical Seditions is excited to release its first original book based on over five years of original research ranging from archives to historic newspapers: Deconstructing Settler Socialism. Join us for an hour long presentation of the book and underlying research, followed by Q&A based discussion.

Dive deep into the 19th century origins of anarchism and communism amid the genocidal settler colonial context of the "wild west." The book's focal point is the uncomfortable legacy of local sections of the International Workingmen's Association (aka the "First International") and a home-grown West Coast revival International that emerged a decade following the (in)famous split between Marx and Bakunin.

Geographically, much of the story is split between San Francisco and the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest but expands to encompass broader "Western North America" from Sacramento and Eureka in California to Denver and Rock Springs, WY in the Mountain West, to British Columbia in the North and Sinaloa, Mexico to the South, tying in global connections across both the Pacific and Atlantic. Critical light is shed on the history of "cooperative colony" land projects amid ongoing Indigenous land theft and the foundational role anti-Chinese racism played in constructing a white settler labor movement.