Status Updates From معذبو الأرض

Maybe the real 'industrialised peasants of individualism, lack of discipline, liking to money, and propensities towards waves of rage and deep discouragement' were the Australians we made along the way

(Part 1: 'Concerning Violence') Did not think I could be further radicalised - but good lord, each new realisation comes with a desperate desire for revolution. Fanon outlines the interconnections between each system and its apparatus, between colonial European governments and the private companies that have us all by our necks, all pointing to a certain necessity of overcoming, rather than simply rebranding.

I feel like I’ve read so much of this but it’s just bc the intro and then the forward were 40 pages lol. Really interesting! Going to take me a while! I’m googling a lot of words!

For Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must make a new start, develop a new way of thinking, and endeavor to create a new man

If we want to transform Africa into a new Europe, America into a new Europe, then let us entrust the destinies of our countries to the Europeans. They will do a better job than the best of us. If we want humanity to take one step forward, if we want to take it to another level, then the one where Europe has placed it, then we must innovate. We must be pioneers

Two centuries ago a former European colony took it into its head to catch up with Europe. It has been so successful that the United States of America has become a monster where the flaws, sickness, and inhumanity of Europe have reached frightening proportions

Let us decide not to imitate Europe and let us tense our muscles and brains in a new direction. Let us endeavor to invent a man in full, something which Europe has been incapable of achieving

For many of us the European model is the most alluring but we have seen in the preceding pages how misleading such an imitation can be. European achievements, European technology, and European lifestyles must stop tempting us and leading us astray. When I look for man in European lifestyles and technology, I see a constant denial of man, an avalanche of murders

We can do anything today provided we do not ape Europe. Provided we are not obsessed with catching up with Europe

book club is back baybee