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

Red Menace

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Psychological Warfare - A New Weapon of National Liberation

Fanon argues that the lumpen proletariat can and will be bought off by the colonial powers. He says political education is essential in preventing this sort of co-option, short-sighted selfishness and general dissolution of the revolutionary energies. Fanon: Politics now no longer functions as it did before. It's no longer a reformist compromising politics. Instead it becomes the means by which the arms struggle, born in spontaneity but needing structure, is conducted, controlled and guided.

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