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...WRETCHED OF THE EARTH by Frantz Fanon. 255 pages. Grove...
...author was a Negro intellectual who was born in Martinique and died at 36 of leukemia in a Washington hospital. A friend recalled: "He was still shouting and arguing with people on his deathbed." Educated in French medical schools, Frantz Fanon was assigned to an Algerian hospital in 1952. He quickly identified himself with the Algerian rebels, whose leaders were deeply influenced by Fanon's thinking on racism, colonialism and war, though shocked by his atheism. It was in his psychiatric work at Blida hospital-now renamed for him-that Fanon gained his insights into the minds of colonized...
...settler regards the native as the "quintessence of evil" and the native wants "to sit at the settler's table, to sleep in the settler's bed, with his wife if possible." The native peoples must not only riot or strike but employ skilled guerrilla techniques. Fanon argues that hatred alone is not enough to sustain a war of liberation; only constant political work and propaganda can convince the peasant masses that freedom will be worth the ordeal; brutality must be used purposefully...
...Fanon is able to criticize his own side, particularly the one-party regimes, chauvinism, and native elites who grab all the cushy jobs and Cadillacs. But, in general, the anger is directed the other way, including the ritual indictments that native peoples were deprived of all benefits of colonialism and that Europe's wealth was "stolen" from the undeveloped countries. Fanon insists that colonial rule was as bad as Nazi rule in Europe. Above all, though colonialism was rapidly fading as he wrote this book in the late 1950s, he denounces neocolonialism as the same old evil and defines...
...recognize their government stemmed from Nikita Khrushchev's fear of offending De Gaulle, whom he hoped to use to split the NATO alliance. They are aware that Red Chinese aid was given more to embarrass the West than to help the F.L.N. Even fiery anticolonialist Dr. Frantz Fanon said contemptuously: "If the Communist powers really cared, they would have made a major effort to help us, not just make propaganda with a trickle of aid." Internationally, the F.L.N.'s Algeria is not likely to be subservient to either Moscow or Peking; most probably it will follow a "neutralist...