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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: On Violence and Spontaneity

Red Menace

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The Liberation of the Rural Masses

Fanon is arguing that by unleashing violence, the rural masses begin to exert their agency and develop in earnest an anti-colonial subjectivity. In opposition to the classic Marxist orthodoxy that a successful liberatory revolution must be led by the advanced segments of an industrialized proletariat, it's the peasant masses who become the leading fighting force. The nationalist militant who decides to put his fate in the hands of the peasant masses will never regret it.

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