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

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Is Fonon a Marxist?

Fonon has been credited with creating post-colonial studies as an academic field. His criticisms of European colonialism cut to the core of liberal ideology and values, he says. "He analyzes the colonial situation as one shaped fundamentally by capitalist class society" Fonon is often lumped in with Edward Said, but their politics were actually pretty different, writes Andrew Keen.

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