Sentence:  Those ideologies of nationalism with which the elites wage war against white <WSD>settlerism</WSD> emphasised military battles fought 'against' white <WSD>settlerism</WSD> and never 'for' an alternative vision that would displace the hated ideas that hedged around and sustained most areas of the contemporary systems of oppression. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Group identification among settlers (as opposed to indigenous people or imported slaves), coupled with an ideology of  freedom and social participation that applies exclusively to members of that group.