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Discourse on Colonialism - Aimé Césaire

Red Menace

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Marxism in Fennon's Wretched of the Earth

Marxism plays the same basic role in this text as it does in Fennon's wretched of the earth. Historical materialism is being used perfectly to analyze and demystify colonialism, says Cessaire. Any critique of capitalism or any anti-capitalist movement must come with a critique of colonialism,. And it's precisely those colonized revolutionaries who can offer us an ever more robust, updated Marxism.

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