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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: On Violence and Spontaneity

Red Menace

CHAPTER

The Colonization of the Colonial System

Colonial intellectuals will at first see to integrate themselves into the colonial system by filling highly technical positions. But despite this, the masses do not see this as sufficient justice and will continue to push for decolonization. The colonized intellectuals will thus learn from the masses that the abstract Western values that they clung to are meaningless abstractions in the face of decolonial struggle. Finan argues that individualism will be the first to go and that the intellectual will have to subject their personal will to the collective will of the colonized masses.

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