A Dying ColonialismFrantz Fanon's seminal work on anticolonialism and the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution. Psychiatrist, humanist, revolutionary, Frantz Fanon was one of the great political analysts of our time, the author of such seminal works of modern revolutionary theory as The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks. He has had a profound impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world. A Dying Colonialism is Fanon's incisive and illuminating account of how, during the Algerian Revolution, the people of Algeria changed centuries-old cultural patterns and embraced certain ancient cultural practices long derided by their colonialist oppressors as "primitive," in order to destroy those oppressors. Fanon uses the fifth year of the Algerian Revolution as a point of departure for an explication of the inevitable dynamics of colonial oppression. This is a strong, lucid, and militant book; to read it is to understand why Fanon says that for the colonized, "having a gun is the only chance you still have of giving a meaning to your death." |
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... humanity was maintained in an unbreak- able though not always visible line , in the depths of the life of the masses and in the uninterrupted fight - slandered , attacked , but alive in the very center of history - of little ...
... humanity , once it has reached such a degree of decision and collective conscience , cannot be destroyed by war , whatever may be the immeasurable damage war can wreak . Perhaps this thesis is not very inspiring for a resident of New ...
... humanity , the population of the United States , from the life , the problems , and the changes that the immense majority of humanity is experiencing . It is to iso- late this segment from the future and from life and to shut it up ...