What Frantz Fanon thinks about Europe
French psychiatrist and political philosopher from Martinique (1925 to 1961), a founding thinker of postcolonial studies, best known for The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks.
Frantz Fanon did not write this page.
We collected these quotes from things they published elsewhere, and every quote links to where it was said. They have no account here and have not endorsed this site. Quotes are word for word; the short line under each one is our own restatement, not their wording. Their own site. Is this you? Claim it or ask us to remove it. Or tell us what is wrong here.
4 dated positions, c. 1961, in their own words. Our reading of what Frantz Fanon has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsEurope is literally the creation of the Third World. The riches which are choking it are those plundered from the underdeveloped peoples.
↗The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 2004 edition; tr. Richard Philcox)books.google.com All 21 from this book
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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.
↗The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 2004 edition; tr. Richard Philcox)books.google.com All 21 from this book
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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.
↗The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 2004 edition; tr. Richard Philcox)books.google.com All 21 from this book
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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.
↗The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 2004 edition; tr. Richard Philcox)books.google.com All 21 from this book
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