Status Updates From Os Condenados da Terra

L'intellettuale colonizzato aveva imparato dai suoi maestri che l'individuo deve affermarsi. La borghesia colonialista aveva conficcato a colpi di maglio nella mente del colonizzato l'idea di una società di individui in cui ognuno si rinchiude nella sua soggettività, in cui la ricchezza è quella del pensiero.

The bourgeoisie attempts to mask its mediocrity by ostentatious projects for individual prestige, chromium plated American cars, vacations on the French Riviera and weekends in neon lit nightclubs.

The bourgeoisie of Europe was dynamic, educated and secular and fully succeeded in its undertaking of capital accumulation and endowed the nation with a minimum of prosperity. In the under developed countries there was no genuine bourgeoisie but rather an inquisitive, voracious and ambitious petty cast, dominated by a small time racketeer mentality, content with the dividends paid out by the former colonial power.

The bourgeois phase in the underdeveloped countries is only justified if the national bourgeoisie sufficiently powerful, economically and technically, to be able to build a bourgeois society, to create the conditions for developing a sizable proletariat, to mechanize agriculture, and finally pave the way for a genuine national culture.