22 Quotes & Sayings By Frantz Fanon

Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, philosopher, historian, writer, and revolutionary psychiatrist. Born in Martinique in 1925 to a wealthy family, he was educated in France and England. He joined the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) during the War of Independence (1948-1962), but he was accused of collaborating with the French colonial army and was imprisoned for three years. He spent much of his subsequent career in Algeria where he became an outspoken advocate for decolonization Read more

He died of cancer in 1961..

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In the heat of the battle, all internal barriers break down; the puppet bourgeoisie of businessmen and shopkeepers, the urban proletariat, which is always in a privileged position, the lumpen-proletariat of the shanty towns - all fall into line with the stand made by the rural masses, that veritable reservoir of a national revolutionary army; for in those countries where colonialism has deliberately held up development, the peasantry, when it rises, quickly stands out as the revolutionary class. For it knows naked oppression, and suffers far more from it than the workers in the towns, and in order not to die of hunger, it demands no less than a complete demolishing of all existing structures. In order to triumph, the national revolution must be socialist . JeanPaul Sarte
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Here, the mother country is satisfied to keep some feudal rulers in her pay; there, dividing and ruling she has created a native bourgeoisie, sham from beginning to end; elsewhere she has played a double game: the colony is planted with settlers and exploited at the same time. Thus Europe has multiplied divisions and opposing groups, has fashioned classes and sometimes even racial prejudices, and has endeavoured by every means to bring about and intensify the stratification of colonised societies. Fanon hides nothing: in order to fight against us the former colony must fight against itself: or, rather, the two struggles form part of a whole. JeanPaul Sarte