The Political Thought of Ame and Santor in the 19 Forties and Fifties

Ame proposed a law that would make the caribbean colonies of martinique and guadeloup, plus french guiana in south america and the island of reunon in the indian ocean into constituent parts of the french republic. He never did achieve this goal and ceased trying to change martiniq's legal status in the nint eighties. His preferred solution was federalist autonomy rather than independence. Ame argues that colonization works to de civilize colonizer, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred and moral relativism. This is not mere speculation, but a diagnosis of the most infamous atrocity of the