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Spontaneity: its Strengths and Weaknesses
"If need be the native can accept a compromise with colonialism, but never a surrender of principle."
"Violence alone... committed by the people..., organized and educated makes it possible for the masses to understand social truths and gives the keys to them."
— Sep 08, 2026 11:39PM
"If need be the native can accept a compromise with colonialism, but never a surrender of principle."
"Violence alone... committed by the people..., organized and educated makes it possible for the masses to understand social truths and gives the keys to them."
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Chris Baterna
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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
— Sep 03, 2026 03:38AM
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(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.
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Sartre's Preface is brilliantly packed with confrontational ideas to get a taste of Fanon
"...this irrepressible violence is neither sound and fury, nor the resurrection of savage instincts, nor even the effect of resentment: it is man recreating himself."
"The child of violence, at every moment he draws from it humanity. We were men at his expense, he makes himself man at ours: a different man; of higher quality."
— Jul 15, 2026 12:44AM
"...this irrepressible violence is neither sound and fury, nor the resurrection of savage instincts, nor even the effect of resentment: it is man recreating himself."
"The child of violence, at every moment he draws from it humanity. We were men at his expense, he makes himself man at ours: a different man; of higher quality."