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Discourse on Colonialism - Aimé Césaire

Red Menace

CHAPTER

Colonialism - A Beast That Spouts Blood and So's Death

Colonialism, like fascism and imperialism, cannot be separated from capitalism itself. This is a truth, an undeniable reality that Cesar sees what all who are not willfully blind see. Coloy's main ideas boils down to a set of claims we hear all the time today by the fascist right. The West is the best. It invented science. It alone built global civilization. It Alone possesses logical thought. Its Christian religion is superior to all others by far. With him, the Negroes are sure that they will not be lynched, the Jews that they willnot be fed into new bonfires. There is just one thing. That this tolerance has no conditions, no guarantees, unless

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