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Discourse on Colonialism - Aimé Césaire

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Is There a Dialectic Divide Between the West and the East?

The division between the West and the East, if understood as anything more than rhetorical and linguistic shorthand, is a bourgeois mystification on some level. And we see fascists as well as conservative and liberal formations, reify this error and turn it into a core aspect of their understanding of the world. The only way that a non-white person can join a fascist formation like the Proud Boys or other ones is by adopting their confusion as his own.

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