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Discourse on Colonialism - Aimé Césaire

Red Menace

CHAPTER

What Is the Core of European Civilization?

Emmais-Assair: Europe is indefensible, not only morally, but spiritually, existentially, fundamentally. The rot goes to the core of European society; located in that rotting core is what Cesar calls the principle lie that is the source of all the others. He asks us to consider what colonization is and what it is not - base economic expansionism and extractivism,. All other reasons given are lies, hypocrisies, mystifications," he says.

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