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But the Europeans did not act on the mission that was designated them which consisted of pondering these elements, modifying their configuration, changing them and finally taking the problem of man to an infinitely higher plane.

There were European who urged the workers to smash this narcissism and break with this denial of reality. But generally speaking, the workers did not respond to the call. The workers believed they too were part of the prodigious adventure of the European Spirit.
All the elements for a solution to the major problems of humanity existed at one time or another in European thought.

National consciousness is the highest form of culture but it is not nationalism.

Political education means opening up the mind, awakening the mind and introducing it to the world. "To invent the souls of men."

He says the youth of Africa should not be oriented toward the stadiums but toward the fields and the schools, but how many African youth want to do agricultural work? They are much more interested in stadiums (and probably alcohol).

Development must be widespread
Mass participation, opportunity to speak

To nationalize the tertiary sector means organizing democratically the cooperatives for buying and selling. it means decentralizing these cooperatives by involving the masses the management of public affairs. All this obviously cannot succeed unless the people are politically educated.

Criticism of what happened in the Congo

Because the bourgeoisie is uncaring and underdeveloped, it deposits the profits it makes from national resources in foreign banks and buys cars, villas and ostentatious goods.
The post-colonial bourgeoisie ends up becoming the new colonists.

Independence does not bring a change of direction. The same old ground nut harvest, cocoa harvest and olive oil harvest. Likewise the traffic of commodities goes unchanged. No industry is established. They continue to ship raw materials and produce for Europe.