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The Wretched of the Earth
by Frantz Fanon
"a world compartmentalized, manichean and petrified, a world of statues: the statue of the general who led the conquest, the statue of the engineer who built the bridge. a world cocksure of itself, crushing with its stoniness the backbones of those scarred by the whip."
a necessary read for those interested in marxism, specifically with a more psychological perspective focus on the effects of colonialism. this novel is filled with a passionate rage and a call to recognize your family within community. the path to liberation through endless resistance is bloody and scathing. this book recognizes that the goal of liberation is not to follow the punitive and destructively racist, paved way europe has created (and the united states has followed). every country deserves its right to be independent and recognized as such. every person deserves the basic right of living.
the last chapter's detailing of fanon's first hand experiences of working in an alergian hospital are sickening. the shifting perspectives between algerian patients and europeans only adds even more weight to the debilitating nature of this book. the deep dive into the psychological warfare committed by police is fucking disgusting.
"yes, everyone must be involved in the struggle for the sake of common salvation. there are no clean hands, no innocent bystanders. we are all in the process of dirtying our hands in the quagmire of our soil and the terrifying void of our minds. any bystander is a coward or a traitor."
"the people understand that wealth is not the fruit of labor but the spoils from an organized protection racket. the rich no longer seem respectable men but flesh-eating beasts, jackals and ravens who wallow in the blood of the people."
"the pacifists are a fine sight: neither victims nor torturers! come now! if you are not a victim when the government you voted for and the army your young brothers served in, commits 'genocide,' without hesitation or remorse, then, you are undoubtedly a torturer...get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth, perhaps displays of nonviolence might relieve the conflict. but if the entire regime, even your nonviolent thoughts, is governed by a thousand-year-old oppression, your passiveness serves no other purpose but to put you on the side of the oppressors."
a necessary read for those interested in marxism, specifically with a more psychological perspective focus on the effects of colonialism. this novel is filled with a passionate rage and a call to recognize your family within community. the path to liberation through endless resistance is bloody and scathing. this book recognizes that the goal of liberation is not to follow the punitive and destructively racist, paved way europe has created (and the united states has followed). every country deserves its right to be independent and recognized as such. every person deserves the basic right of living.
the last chapter's detailing of fanon's first hand experiences of working in an alergian hospital are sickening. the shifting perspectives between algerian patients and europeans only adds even more weight to the debilitating nature of this book. the deep dive into the psychological warfare committed by police is fucking disgusting.
"yes, everyone must be involved in the struggle for the sake of common salvation. there are no clean hands, no innocent bystanders. we are all in the process of dirtying our hands in the quagmire of our soil and the terrifying void of our minds. any bystander is a coward or a traitor."
"the people understand that wealth is not the fruit of labor but the spoils from an organized protection racket. the rich no longer seem respectable men but flesh-eating beasts, jackals and ravens who wallow in the blood of the people."
"the pacifists are a fine sight: neither victims nor torturers! come now! if you are not a victim when the government you voted for and the army your young brothers served in, commits 'genocide,' without hesitation or remorse, then, you are undoubtedly a torturer...get this into your head: if violence were only a thing of the future, if exploitation and oppression never existed on earth, perhaps displays of nonviolence might relieve the conflict. but if the entire regime, even your nonviolent thoughts, is governed by a thousand-year-old oppression, your passiveness serves no other purpose but to put you on the side of the oppressors."