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Discourse on Colonialism - Aimé Césaire

Red Menace

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The Connection Between Imperialism and Capitalism

Siseris: Cesar ends this text with a warning about the rise of the US and the future instability which colonialism will bring about. He doesn't talk about the United States that much until the very end when he tells the colonized world, don't trust it. Siseris: America is just as brutal, just as violent, and that its project has been just as soaked in blood as the European project was. And I think that if we look at the sort of threats that the United States and Europe are facing today domestically and around the world, we do see that sort of destabilization that Cesar warned about has played out," she says.

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