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Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of The Earth.

Author
Fanon, Frantz
Published On
January 24, 2023
Original Date
2007
Political
Bibliographic

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of The Earth. Grove/Atlantic, Inc., (2007).

Amongst other arguments, Fanon suggests that the urban-dwelling native intellectual class has absorbed the ideologies of the colonizer and seeks to assimilate themselves into the colonized world. Only by making common cause with the lumpenproletariat in rural areas can independence movements be truly revolutionary.

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