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A review by paigemcloughlin
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
4.0
Written during the de-colonial era of the 1950s and 1960s it is a searing critique of western powers mostly in Africa and Asia. Things were more hopeful for the poor countries back then. The anger had hope in it. I don't know what Fanon would write now that we are well into the neoliberal era and its unraveling.
Update 7/10/2022
Interesting that this book put hope in the revolutionary overturning of Capitalist imperialism. Africa has yet to unyoke itself long after decolonization. We are well into the neocolonial era and the laboratory of third-world exploitation is coming back to the core countries to try out on the privileged populations of the rich countries. Capitalism is intensifying and concentrating and increasingly previously bought-off populations are now becoming disposable to be jettisoned as the falling rate of profit makes class war more brutal. The future is in places where the wretched of the earth dwell until the tables are turned if that is possible and the core will look more and more like the periphery until this happens.
Update 7/10/2022
Interesting that this book put hope in the revolutionary overturning of Capitalist imperialism. Africa has yet to unyoke itself long after decolonization. We are well into the neocolonial era and the laboratory of third-world exploitation is coming back to the core countries to try out on the privileged populations of the rich countries. Capitalism is intensifying and concentrating and increasingly previously bought-off populations are now becoming disposable to be jettisoned as the falling rate of profit makes class war more brutal. The future is in places where the wretched of the earth dwell until the tables are turned if that is possible and the core will look more and more like the periphery until this happens.