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Discourse on Colonialism - Aimé Césaire

Red Menace

CHAPTER

The Boomerang Effect of Colonization

Sessar: No more equitable form of contact between Europe and the colonized can occur, so long as the ideology and material conditions of colonialism produce the very impossibility of contact. He writes again, quote, for my part, I search in vain for the place where I could have expressed such views. Sessar insists that he's not an opponent of internationalism and contact between people writ large. And here we see the extent to which Sessar's critique of colonialism is also a critique of capitalism.

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