#The Wretched of the Earth

[philosophybits]

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.

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

[phobic-human]

"Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions."

-Frantz Fanon

[shihlun]

Karim Aïnouz

- Mariner of the Mountains

2021

[propertiesofjoy]

the wretched of the earth, frantz fanon

[nitewrighter]

It's true, you are not colonists, but you are not much better. They were your pioneers, you sent them overseas, they made you rich. You warned them: if they shed too much blood you would pretend to disown them; the same way a State--no matter which one--maintains a mob of agitators, provocateurs, and spies abroad whom it disowns once they are caught."

--Jean-Paul Sartre's Preface to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth

[littleliteraturelegion]

"The colonist is not content with physically limiting the space of the colonized, i.e, with the help of his agents of law and order. As if to illustrate the totalitarian nature of colonial exploitation, the colonist turns the colonized into a kind of quintessential of evil. Colonized society is not merely portrayed as a society without values. The colonist is not content with stating that the colonized world has lost its values or worse never possessed any. The "native" is declared impervious to ethics, representing not only the absence of values but also the negation of values. He is, dare we say it, the enemy of values. In other words, absolute evil."

-Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

[chainmail-butch]

I'm reading Franz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth and I find myself agreeing with Sartre (who wrote the preface) for the first time ever. I suppose this is what they call 'character growth.'

Not for me though, for Sartre.

[iasirene]

Today marks 63 years since the death of Marxist decolonial philosopher Frantz Fanon, here is a quote from his most famous work, The Wretched of the Earth:

“To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.”

[swansandsons]

Concerning Violence: Nine Scenes from the Anti-Imperialist Self-Defense

[facelessinthesun]

the close

[philosophybits]

Two centuries ago, a former European colony took it into its head to catch up with Europe. It has been so successful that the United States of America has become a monster where the flaws, sickness, and inhumanity of Europe have reached frightening proportions.

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

[the-cosmic-bookshelf]

Shelf.

[scamallach-1]

From Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth. The arts/being an artist/an artist’s place + the settler-colonialism that touches so much of the arts in The West has been on my mind ever since I was looking at what decolonial scholars and educators have been saying about it. Then I came upon this excerpt this morning.

[thethirdbear]

every spectator is a coward or a traitor.

[propertiesofjoy]

the wretched of the earth, frantz fanon

[angelicnightmareblogsstuff]

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