Read Fanon

Jul 22, 2024

As a Black person, if you are interested in the affairs of the Global Black World (GBW), try to get and read Frantz Fanon’s books. (See here: https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Frantz_Fanon)

This brilliant intellectual clinically diagnosed the state of our affairs about six decades ago. No one has even come close to matching his faultless analyses.

Here is just one such brilliant analyses, and in it we find everything that still ails the GBW today:

“The national bourgeoisie discovers its historical mission as an intermediary. As we have seen, its vocation is not to transform the nation but prosaically serve as a conveyor belt for capitalism, forced to camouflage itself behind the mask of neocolonialism. The national bourgeoisie, with no misgivings and with great pride, revels in the role of agent in its dealings with the Western bourgeoisie. This lucrative role, this function as a small-time racketeer, this narrow-mindedness and lack of ambition are symptomatic of the incapacity of the national bourgeoisie to fulfill its historic role as bourgeoisie. The dynamic, pioneering aspect, the inventive, discoverer-of-new-worlds aspect common to every national bourgeoisie is here lamentably absent. At the core of the national bourgeoisie of the colonial countries, a hedonistic mentality prevails—because on a psychological level, it identifies with the Western bourgeoisie from which it has slurped every lesson. It mimics the Western bourgeoisie in its negative and decadent aspects without having accomplished the initial phases of exploration and invention that are the assets of this Western bourgeoisie whatever the circumstances. In its early days, the national bourgeoisie of the colonial countries identifies with the last stages of the Western bourgeoisie. Don’t believe it is taking shortcuts. In fact it starts at the end. It is already senile, having experienced neither the exuberance nor the brazen determination of youth and adolescence.” – Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.

Read my article, Between Fanon and Nkrumah: https://femiakogun.substack.com/p/between-fanon-and-nkrumah

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