#the wretched of the earth by frantz fanon

[tendermimi]

Palestine will be free. (frantz fanon, the wretched of the earth)

[shihlun]

Karim Aïnouz

- Mariner of the Mountains

2021

[philosophybits]

Colonialism almost never exploits the entire country. It is content with extracting natural resources and exporting them to the metropolitan industries thereby enabling a specific sector to grow relatively wealthy, while the rest of the colony continues, or rather sinks, into underdevelopment and poverty.

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

[revolutionarysuicide]

The settler's work is to make even dreams of liberty impossible for the native. The native's work is to imagine all possible methods for destroying the settler.

- Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (trans. Constance Farrington)

[wellconstructedsentences]

Colonialism is not a machine capable of thinking, a body endowed with reason. It is naked violence and only gives in when confronted with greater violence.

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

[thewormsingularityisnear]

“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, The Wretched of the Earth (1961)

[haveyoureadthispoll]

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Bearing singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in effecting historical change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of post-independence colonial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the other. Fanon's analysis, a veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, has been reflected all too clearly in the corruption and violence that has plagued present-day Africa. The Wretched of the Earth has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world, and this bold new translation by Richard Philcox reaffirms it as a landmark.

[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

[liberashen]

“Now, political education means opening their minds, awakening them, and allowing the birth of their intelligence; as Cesaire said, it is ‘to invent souls’. 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.”

— Frantz Fanon

[damnesdelamer]

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon available here.

The Wretched Of The Earth by Frantz Fanon available here.

[poetical-camaraderie]

ON VIOLENCE

(A found poem inspired by Vijay Prashad and Frantz Fanon)

A civilization

that tolerates high

levels of

hunger

among its people

is a violent

civilization.

A civilization

that tolerates high

levels of

unemployment

among its people

is a violent

civilization.

A civilization

that needs a police

force to stop

hungry people

from getting food

is a violent

civilization.

The violence comes

prior to looting.

Colonialism

was looting.

Capitalism

is looting.

How is it possible

that rich countries

have such high

levels of

hunger

when there is food

all around?

If you don’t have money,

you can’t have food.

That is an act of violence.

It is a violence

against humanity.

[philosophybits]

Colonialism and imperialism have not settled their debt to us once they have withdrawn their flag and their police force from our territories. For centuries the capitalists have behaved like real war criminals in the underdeveloped world.

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

[lullabyes22-blog]

“The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist’s sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist’s table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.”

— Frantz Fanon

[sissa-arrows]

I've started reading the wretched of the earth and i'm at sartre's preface rn and i just can't get through it 😭😭. How are you writing a preface to an anti-racist book and yet being SO racist about it 😭😭😭

That’s why I keep saying to not read his preface 😭 on top of it Fanon’s wife asked for the preface to be removed saying that Sartre’s Zionism was incompatible with Fanon’s anti colonialism/support for the Palestinian cause.

Despite being edited AFTER the request to remove Sartre’s preface the majority of the copies still have it. Not respecting the wish of Fanon’s widow. Mine for example still has his preface but I never read it.

(One of my favorite things about Fanon after his work of course is how I can anger French racists by telling them that he was a Martinican who chose to be Algerian over being French. And whenever they say I’m lying I show how in the Wretched of the Earth when talking about Algeria and Algerians he says “We” “Us” and “Our” not “They”)

[anitosoul]

Concerning Violence narrated by Ms. Lauryn Hill

[the-organic-dynamic]

"Our Machiavellianism has little purchase on this wide-awake world that has run our falsehoods to earth one after the other." -Jean-Paul Sartre, in his preface to Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth (1963)