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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: On National Consciousness and National Culture

Red Menace

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The New National Bohemian State

The bourgeoisie does not have the economic means both to ensure its domination and to hand out a few crumbs to the rest of the country, says Van Nuand. And so these projects show the weakness of this emerging state as they attempt to convince the masses that this project is good for them," he adds. The leader thus goes from playing a revolutionary role to a pacifying role, though he or she once drew on the militancy of the masses, according to Fanon. This opposition prevents the possibility of a truly bourgeois era to develop in the post-colonial context, van Nuand writes.

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