The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression

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Tariq D. Khan

The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean

How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression

Tariq D. Khan

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University of Illinois Press
05 September 2023

History of the Americas; Social & cultural history; Indigenous peoples; Political ideologies; Industrial relations & safety

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.

By: Tariq D. Khan
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 23mm
ISBN: 9780252087431
ISBN 10: 0252087437
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 05 September 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tariq D. Khan is a lecturer in the history of psychology at Yale University.

Reviews for The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean: How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression

"""This is an important book. Well-told, diligently researched and splendidly written, Khan maintains his Left and anarchist perspective throughout, yet never does the narrative falter into rhetoric and hyperbole. The history told in The Republic Shall be Kept Clean needs no hyperbole to emphasize the savagery of those who founded, expanded, and rule it."" --Counterpunch"