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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: On National Consciousness and National Culture

Red Menace

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Decolonization Is the Creation of New Men and Women

Fanon seems to be seeking out a true universalism rooted in a new humanism, which is anchored in socialism. If liberal claims to universalism are systematically undermined by the material operations of free market capitalism, then there is no hope of achieving a real universal humanism unless capitalism itself is dismantled and transcended. Fanon says at one point, quote, let us endeavor to invent a man in full, something which Europe has been incapable of achieving"

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