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The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 2004 edition; tr. Richard Philcox)

Frantz Fanon · c. 1961

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  1. Our reading

    Decolonization, whatever name it goes by, is always a violent event

    Their wordsNational liberation, national reawakening, restoration of the nation to the people or Commonwealth, whatever the name used, whatever the latest expression, decolonization is always a violent event.

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  2. Our reading

    Decolonization is truly the creation of new men

    Their wordsDecolonization is truly the creation of new men.

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  3. Our reading

    In the colonies cause is effect: people are rich because they are white, and white because they are rich

    Their wordsThe cause is effect: You are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich.

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  4. Our reading

    Destroying the colonial world means nothing less than demolishing the colonist's sector, burying it or banishing it from the territory

    Their wordsTo destroy the colonial world means nothing less than demolishing the colonist's sector, burying it deep within the earth or banishing it from the territory.

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  5. Our reading

    In colonial countries only the peasantry is revolutionary, because it has nothing to lose and everything to gain

    Their wordsBut it is obvious that in colonial countries only the peasantry is revolutionary. It has nothing to lose and everything to gain.

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  6. Our reading

    The starving, exploited peasant is the one who very soon discovers that only violence pays

    Their wordsThe underprivileged and starving peasant is the exploited who very soon discovers that only violence pays.

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  7. Our reading

    Violence can be understood as the perfect mediation: the colonized man liberates himself in and through violence

    Their wordsViolence can thus be understood to be the perfect mediation. The colonized man liberates himself in and through violence.

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  8. Our reading

    At the individual level violence is a cleansing force, ridding the colonized of inferiority and despair and restoring self-confidence

    Their wordsAt the individual level, violence is a cleansing force. It rids the colonized of their inferiority complex, of their passive and despairing attitude. It emboldens them, and restores their self-confidence.

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  9. Our reading

    The violence of the colonized unifies the people

    Their wordsThe violence of the colonized, we have said, unifies the people.

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  10. Our reading

    Europe is literally the creation of the Third World, its riches plundered from the underdeveloped peoples

    Their wordsEurope is literally the creation of the Third World. The riches which are choking it are those plundered from the underdeveloped peoples.

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  11. Our reading

    Impetuous spontaneity bent on quickly settling scores with the colonial system is destined to fail as a doctrine

    Their wordsBut it soon becomes clear that this impetuous spontaneity, which is intent on rapidly settling its score with the colonial system, is destined to fail as a doctrine.

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  12. Our reading

    African unity can only be achieved under pressure and leadership from the people, with total disregard for bourgeois interests

    Their wordsThis is why we must understand that African unity can only be achieved under pressure and through leadership by the people, i.e., with total disregard for the interests of the bourgeoisie.

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  13. Our reading

    In underdeveloped countries a bourgeois phase is out of the question

    Their wordsIn the underdeveloped countries a bourgeois phase is out of the question.

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  14. Our reading

    Nobody, neither leader nor militant, has a monopoly on truth; seeking truth in local situations is the community's responsibility

    Their wordsNobody has a monopoly on truth, neither the leader nor the militant. The search for truth in local situations is the responsibility of the community.

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  15. Our reading

    Nationalism that is not explained, enriched, deepened and quickly turned into social and political consciousness leads to a dead end

    Their wordsIf nationalism is not explained, enriched, and deepened, if it does not very quickly turn into a social and political consciousness, into humanism, then it leads to a dead end.

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  16. Our reading

    Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity

    Their wordsEach generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

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  17. Our reading

    National consciousness, which is not nationalism, is alone capable of giving an international dimension

    Their wordsNational consciousness, which is not nationalism, is alone capable of giving us an international dimension.

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  18. Our reading

    We should leave behind a Europe that never stops talking of man yet massacres him at every street corner

    Their wordsLet us leave this Europe which never stops talking of man yet massacres him at every one of its street corners, at every corner of the world.

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  19. Our reading

    What we want is to walk in the company of every human being, night and day, for all time

    Their wordsBut what we want is to walk in the company of man, every man, night and day, for all times.

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  20. Our reading

    For Europe, ourselves and humanity, we must make a new start, think in a new way and try to create a new man

    Their wordsFor Europe, for ourselves and for humanity, comrades, we must make a new start, develop a new way of thinking, and endeavor to create a new man.

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  21. Our reading

    We should not pay tribute to Europe by building states and societies modelled on it; humanity expects more than that emulation

    Their wordsSo comrades, let us not pay tribute to Europe by creating states, institutions, and societies that draw their inspiration from it. Humanity expects other things from us than this grotesque and generally obscene emulation.

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