I still have my 1968 paperback copy of The Wretched of the Earth, with its adulatory (but, alas, incoherent) preface by Sartre. I thought Fanon was a nutcase then and I still think so now. Anyone who can come down unequivocally on the side of "absolute violence" against "this narrow world strewn with prohibitions" (like decency and human…
I still have my 1968 paperback copy of The Wretched of the Earth, with its adulatory (but, alas, incoherent) preface by Sartre. I thought Fanon was a nutcase then and I still think so now. Anyone who can come down unequivocally on the side of "absolute violence" against "this narrow world strewn with prohibitions" (like decency and humanity) is certifiable. You don't have to be an imperialist to reject the world Fanon clones would condemn us to live in.
I still have my 1968 paperback copy of The Wretched of the Earth, with its adulatory (but, alas, incoherent) preface by Sartre. I thought Fanon was a nutcase then and I still think so now. Anyone who can come down unequivocally on the side of "absolute violence" against "this narrow world strewn with prohibitions" (like decency and humanity) is certifiable. You don't have to be an imperialist to reject the world Fanon clones would condemn us to live in.