I want to do a thread of some of my favorite Noel Ignatiev writings. he alongside Du Bois completely overhauled my understanding of race and capitalism in the United States
Introduction to the United States: An Autonomist Political History https://libcom.org/library/1600-1980-introduction-united-states-noel-ignatiev
"The American blindspot": Reconstruction according to Eric Foner and W.E.B. Du Bois https://libcom.org/library/american-blindspot-reconstruction-according-eric-foner-web-du-bois-noel-ignatiev
Editor's Introduction, Hard Crackers #1 https://hardcrackers.com/editors-introductionthis-issue-of-hard-crackers/
The World View of CLR James http://www.bringtheruckus.org/?q=node/109
review of the Communist Hypothesis by Badiou https://www.pmpress.org/blog/2019/09/02/the-communist-hypothesis/
Race or Class? https://www.pmpress.org/blog/2019/09/02/race-or-class/
a bunch more of his blog posts here https://www.pmpress.org/blog/authors-artists-comrades/noel-ignatiev/#more
complete archive of Race Traitor https://libcom.org/library/race-traitor-journal-new-abolitionism
Noel knew better than most how to attack race without reifying it, and he was I think deceptively successful in propagating his views. I didn't know him well but he also seemed like a great person, to boot. Rest in Power 



