The Wretched of the Earth
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A distinguished child psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most vital theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon’s masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said’s Orientalism or The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. The Wretched of the Planet is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation. Impact singular insight into the rage and frustration of colonized peoples, and the role of violence in effecting past change, the book incisively attacks the twin perils of post independence colonial politics: the disenfranchisement of the masses by the elites on the one hand, and intertribal and interfaith animosities on the additional. Fanon’s analysis, a veritable handbook of social reorganization for leaders of emerging nations, has been reflected all too clearly in the corruption and violence that has plagued present-day Africa. The Wretched of the Planet has had a major impact on civil rights, anticolonialism, and black consciousness movements around the world, and this bold new translation by Richard Philcox reaffirms it as a landmark.Amazon.com Review
Frantz Fanon (1925-61) was a Martinique-born black child psychiatrist and anticolonialist intellectual; The Wretched of the Planet is considered by many to be one of the canonical books on the worldwide black liberation struggles of the 1960s. Within a Marxist framework, using a cutting and nonsentimental writing style, Fanon draws upon his horrific experiences effective in Algeria during its war of independence against France. He addresses the role of violence in decolonization and the challenges of political organization and the class collisions and questions of cultural hegemony in the creation and maintenance of a new country’s national consciousness. As Fanon eloquently writes, “[T]he unpreparedness of the educated classes, the lack of practical links between them and the mass of the people, their laziness, and, let it be said, their cowardice at the decisive moment of the struggle will give rise to tragic mishaps.”
Although socialism has seemingly collapsed in the years since Fanon’s work was first published, there is much in his look into the political, racial, and social psyche of the ever-emerging Third World that still rings right at the cusp of a new century. –Eugene Holley, Jr.
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Fanon asserts that violence is necessary for colonized and opressed people to achieve liberation. Have none of the readers of this book ever heard of Gandhi or Martin Luther King? Not only can national liberation be achieved lacking violence, but India has proven itself to one of the more stable and democratic of the ex- colonial possessions. Further, violence is regularly if not permanently reasonably counterproductive. LBJ’s civil rights program stalled after the Watts riots, and Seale, Newton, and the additional Panthers were some of the best allies the right wing of America ever had. George Wallace and his kinder, gentler protege Ronald Reagan owe a lot of their political success to them and like minded groups. In much the same way the rise of the Israeli far right can be linked to Palestinian suicide bombers and additional attacks on civilians. Of course these are facts and Fanon is theory and never the twain shall meet.
Fanon isn’t even that excellent when considered from a theory angle. His admirers can ramble on about dialectics all they want (a word I’d wager none of them could define), but from what I can tell Fanon’s grip on Marx is shaky at best and his understanding of Hegel laughable. Particularly egregious is his moronic take on the master-slave dialectic. The whole point for the slave is recognition as an equal, which Hegel readily saw could not be achieved through violence, as did King and Ghandi, though they might never have slogged through the PhG. Their tactic of nonviolent resistance is much more effective in getting the “masters” to admit the subjugated as equals than is indiscriminate murder (and yes Fanon does advocate that), a tactic which only reenforces the rulers’ self-serving belief that their subjects are subhuman savages in need of education and civilization.
On a final note if I had I not had to read it myself I would not judge anything this poorly thought out and morally disgusting could be taught at a respectible university. This tripe helps me see why the right holds the college in contempt, but why more progressives don’t take ivory tower sages who’d run screaming at a paper cut to task for preaching slaughter and mayhem is beyond me.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
About twenty years ago, I read this trash-book, here in Brazil.Frantz Fanon (1925-61) was a french( Martinique-born), black and anticolonialist intellectual.This book, The Wretched of the Planet, is Frantz Fanon’s last and most legendary and vital work.In fact, the leader wrote this book confined to his bed, dieing of leukemia in 1961.
Even writen with so many wyll, the thoughts of this book aren’t just absurds, but also outdated today.To example, it claims that criminals, vagrants, and the unemployed are the persons that a name must find to start a communist revolution.Please, traditional communist revolution is over as way to the left get power.Since 1980, left only made communist tyrannies by fascist-like praticers.After honest elections, leftists became dictators, emulating Hitler and Mussolini and using democray to doom itself.Robert Mugabe started this pratice in 1980.Hugo Chavez was nominated by Fidel Castro to be his deputy, years ago.Both entered to power after normal elections, but became communist tyrants and robbers, by coups and elections.
Writen for a world perfect different, this book is outdated, absurd and useless today; even for the left.Communism is alive, but Frantz Fanon was buried by history.
The real future for communist isn’t the useless fake, clarify in this book.The real future for the left is to become muslins.Forget Moscow;remember Mecca forever.Forget Marx, but remember Muhammad forever.Forget “The Capital” , but read and follow “The Koran”.
Islamism is the real totalitarism, of the future.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I read this book after finding it on the Rage Against the Machine reading list, and continue to find new depth and relevancy to it even after 5 readings. Fanon exposes the necessity of violence in opposing the colonialist regime and the pitfalls and atrocities of forcing the Western way of life on additional people. A must read for persons wishing to know the psychology of the oppressed, not only in additional parts of the world, but here in Amerika.
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
A fantastic backdrop for a perspective on colonialism. This book in some cases can be applied to many cultural issues today.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
In an attempt to “show us what we’ve been missing” in terms of Marxist analysis Fanon hits the mark squarely in showing the proletarianized scenery of the colonialized states. A must read for anyone interested in contemporary Marxism, interests in the 3d world, or flyfishermen
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5