Introduction

Discourse speaks in revolutionary cadences, capturing the spirit of its age just as Marx and Engels did 102 years earlier. Discourse on colonialism is indisputably one of the key texts in this title wave of anti-colonial literature produced during the post-war period. In the finest Hegelian fashion, Cesar demonstrates how colonialism works to de-civilize the colonizer. Although Cesar remaining somewhat true to his communist affiliation, never quite dethrones the modern proletariat from its exalted status as a revolutionary force. The European working class is practically invisible. This is a book about colonialism, its impact on the colonized, on culture, on history, on the very concept of civilization itself