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The petty bourgeois doesn't want to hear any more. With a twitch of his ears he flicks the idea away.
The idea, an annoying fly.
Therefore, comrade, you will hold as enemies - loftily, lucidly, consistently - not only sadistic governors and greedy bankers, not only prefects who torture and colonists who flog, not only corrupt, check-licking politicians and subservient judges, [...]
— Jul 06, 2026 10:17AM
The idea, an annoying fly.
Therefore, comrade, you will hold as enemies - loftily, lucidly, consistently - not only sadistic governors and greedy bankers, not only prefects who torture and colonists who flog, not only corrupt, check-licking politicians and subservient judges, [...]
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Fariha
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One of the values invented by the bourgeoisie in former times and launched throughout the world was man - and we have seen what has become of that. The other was the nation.
It is a fact: the nation is a bourgeois phenomenon.
— 6 hours, 43 min ago
It is a fact: the nation is a bourgeois phenomenon.
Fariha
is on page 48 of 79
"the destiny of Western civilization, and indeed the destiny of man," were now threatened; that an attempt was being made on all sides "to appeal to our anxieties, to challenge the claims made for our culture, to call into question the most essential part of what we possess," and he swore to make war upon these "disastrous prophets."
— 6 hours, 46 min ago
Fariha
is on page 48 of 79
No one denies the veracity of Balzac.
But wait a moment: take Vautrin, let him be just back from the tropics, give him the wings of the archangel and the shivers of malaria, let him be accompanied through the streets of Paris by an escort of Uruguayan vampires and carnivorous ants, and you will have Maldoror.
— 6 hours, 54 min ago
But wait a moment: take Vautrin, let him be just back from the tropics, give him the wings of the archangel and the shivers of malaria, let him be accompanied through the streets of Paris by an escort of Uruguayan vampires and carnivorous ants, and you will have Maldoror.
Fariha
is on page 46 of 79
It is easy to blame it on Hitler. On Rosenberg. On Jünger and the others. On the SS.
But what about this: "Everything in this world reeks of crime: the newspaper, the wall, the countenance of man.
— 6 hours, 57 min ago
But what about this: "Everything in this world reeks of crime: the newspaper, the wall, the countenance of man.
Fariha
is on page 45 of 79
"The supreme goal of the People-State is to preserve the original elements of the race which, by spreading culture, create the beauty and dignity of a superior humanity."
— 6 hours, 58 min ago
Fariha
is on page 45 of 79
...it is a universal law that before it disappears, every class must first disgrace itself completely, on all fronts, and that it is with their heads buried in the dunghill that dying societies utter their swan songs.
— 7 hours, 1 min ago
Fariha
is on page 35 of 79
And the striking thing they all have in common is the persistent bourgeois attempt to reduce the most human problems to comfortable, hollow notions: the idea of the dependency complex in Mannoni, the ontological idea in the Rev. Tempels, the idea of "tropicality" in Gourou. What has become of the Banque d'Indochine in all that? And the Banque de Madagascar? And the bullwhip? And the taxes?
— Jul 09, 2026 10:04AM
Fariha
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M. Mannoni has something better: psychoanalysis. Embellished with existentialism, it gives astonishing results: the most down-at-heel cliches are re-soled for you and made good as new; the most absurd prejudices are explained and justified; and, as if by magic, the moon is turned into green cheese.
— Jul 09, 2026 09:59AM
Fariha
is on page 32 of 79
In other words,arrange it so that the white man, and particularly the Belgian, and even more particularly Albert or Leopold,takes his place at the head of the hierarchy of Bantu life forces, and you have done the trick. You will have brought this miracle to pass: the Bantu god will take responsibility for the Belgian colonialist order, and any Bantu who dares to raise his hand against it will be guilty of sacrilege.
— Jul 09, 2026 09:58AM
Fariha
is on page 32 of 79
Since Bantu thought is ontological, the Bantu only ask for satisfaction of an ontological nature. Decent wages! Comfortable housing! Food! These Bantu are pure spirits, I tell you: "What they desire first of all and above all is not the improvement of their economic or material situation, but the white man's recognition of and respect for their dignity as men, their full human value."
— Jul 09, 2026 09:52AM
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[...]but likewise and for the same reason, venomous journalists, goitrous academicians, wreathed in dollars and stupidity, ethnographers who go in for metaphysics, presumptuous Belgian theologians, chattering intellectuals born stinking out of the thigh of Nietzsche, the paternalists, paternalists, the embracers, the corrupters, the back-slappers, the lovers of exoticism, the dividers, the agrarian sociologists, the hoodwinkers, the hoaxers, the hot-air artists, the humbugs, and in general, all those who, performing their functions in the sordid division of labor for the defense of Western bourgeois society, try in divers ways and by infamous diversions to split up the forces of Progress-even if it means denying the very possibility of Progress - all of them tools of capitalism, all of them, openly or secretly, supporters of plundering colonialism, all of them responsible, all hateful, all slave-traders, all henceforth answerable for the violence of revolutionary action.
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