Pre-colonization, we Hawaiians worked 3-4 hours per day, and all resources (food, medicine, housing) were distributed according to need through the ahupua'a system. Zero hoarding (capitalism) was allowed by ali'i (leaders), and mass worker exodus as retaliation prevented it.
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Yet there somehow were resources to spare for bloody religious wars of conquest.
Hui were 1800's worker-coops where Hawaiians and other Asia + Pacific islanders worked together for collective benefit. The Western colonizers had racially stratified plantations with white capitalist owners & brown underpaid near-slave workers. Because of this, we boycotted their banks & businesses
In the Hawaiian story of 'The Flying Kalo', the one ali'i (leader) on Moku o Keawe who began to hoard wealth was chastised by kalo itself, and all the other ahupuaa (districts) came together to pressure him to resume collective redistribution. Also known as ho'oponopono (to make right).
Emma Kaleleonālani, fought for the world's first universal healthcare system in 1859, in Hawaii. No Western country would attempt socialized medicine for a century. The US decimated our free healthcare for selfish profit. Today US workers are wealth-stripped by private healthcare
@silverspookgames Australia had universal socialised child health care in the 1920s, so not a century. And before Samuel, the Hebrews had a socialist utopia 3,000 years ago, where land ownership was temporary and the poor were supported by laws. #nokings
Hawaii's coup - backed by US gunboat diplomacy - to smash a country's building of an actual anti-racist, socialist, thriving country was the blueprint that would later be used by the US on countless countries across the world from Asia to Africa to Latin America. To erase alternatives to capitalism.
USS Boston landing in Hawaii to overthrow our sovereign country with the world's highest literacy rate,
universal healthcare, advanced industry, electricity predating the US White House, and racial/economic
equality. Shortly thereafter, we were converted into an oligarch-run ‘banana republic’ for wealthy white
capitalists.
January 14,1893 members of the
white business community metin a
corporate office in Honolulu to plan
coup against the elected
government of Queen Liliuokalani.
They were not sure how far they
wanted to go but they knew they had
the support of the chief US diplomat
in Hawaii.
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