The triumph of Haiti’s first revolution resulted from the union of two distinct classes. ​The first was Haiti’s freedmen (affranchi), whose foremost political leaders included Alexandre Pétion and Henri Christophe. This class generally owned landed property, but because many of its members were the children of slave owners and enslaved mothers, they did not enjoy
  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    This is a really excellent piece, with how it lays out the “excorporeal” nature of imperial control.

    The State still does not primarily rely on a broad national productive tax base. It can therefore survive despite popular distrust.

    I’m not sure about the strength of the implication of this argument, that a tax base that is distrustful will overthrow the government. But it’s at least half true.