Mark’s Reviews > The Wretched of the Earth > Status Update

I don't understand why he thinks that the militant who confronts the colonist war machine with his rudimentary resources realizes that while he is demolishing colonial oppression he is indirectly building another system of exploitation.

The disconnect between the new governments and the rural interior, and tribal parties that oppose centralization and unity and denounce the one party dictatorship.

The dreams in the douars and villages are not those of the children in the cities dreaming of luxury goods or passing their exams but dreams of identification with such and such a hero whose heroic death still brings tears to their eyes.

In the industrialized countries the peasant masses are generally the least politically conscious, the least organized as well as the most anarchistic elements. They are characterized by a series of features – individualism, lack of discipline, the love of money, fits of rage, and deep depression – defining an objectively reactionary behavior.

Europe is literally the creation of the Third World. The riches which are choking it are those plundered from the under developed peoples. - Fanon
"A deluxe type of socialism" - Péju

The colonized sector is a famished sector, hungry for meat, bread, shoes, coal and light.
It's a sector of n*ggers and towelheads.

The colonist dreams of sitting at the colonist's table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife.

Decolonization is always violent.

Sartre says that in Algeria and Angola, Europeans are a massacred on site! 😮

How is his hope for independence to be viewed in the light of his "empty shell" view of national consciousness (p. 97) and the "charnel houses of ethnic cleansing": Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, Sudan etc.