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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: On Violence and Spontaneity
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Is Fanon Throwing Away Marxism?
Fanon says that Marxism and its distinction between the basis of superstructure can obscure what's happening in the colonial context. Lenin later came along and theorized imperialism then we started to get some tools to understand colonialism. So yes I do think that Marxism is capable of explaining colonialism but that is through augmenting it with new research into decolonial struggle. And this is where Marxism remains the most useful tool because it has the self-critical ability to fix its own problems.
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