
HAP 115 - Weapon of Choice - Amílcar Cabral
History of Philosophy: India, Africana, China
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Kabbrat's Agronomy
Kabbrat tried to get the peasants to see that they were being exploited in ways they could not even perceive. He saw top-down structures of some ethnic groups as counterproductive because their chiefs were often co-opted by the Portuguese colonizers. His business was resistance, which he defined as destroying one thing for the sake of another. Like Krumah and others who wrote against neo-colonialism, Kabbrat understood economic exploitation and domination to be core of colonial enterprise.
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