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Discourse on Colonialism - Aimé Césaire

Red Menace

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Is This a Marxist Text?

Finan: Cesar ends this entire text by centering once again, or at least gesturing to the importance of the universal mission of the proletariat. Finan goes really out of his way to kind of point out, I don't wanna see the breakdown of Marxism in the colonial context, but the difficulties that Marxism has when you try to apply it to the colonial context. He's definitely looking to come in to struggle as a more progressive example.

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