hello comrades here we shall be discussing The Wretched of the earth preface and chapter one On Violence i was gonna write my own summry for yall but this summary and analysis i found would serve you all better than what I could write this morning, my sincere apoligies I wiil start us off with some optional question promts!
what did you think of satare’s preface?
what does Fanon mean by “replacing one species with another”?
who is the colonized intellectual? what role does he serve?
what does Fanon say about nationalist reformist movements? what are their failings?
why must decolonization be total and all encompassing?
why is the allocation of instruments of force important? I also want to encourage everyone to try to make critique of the reading.
these are just a few things to get the ball rolling, please let me know what I can do better! Please keep commenting and contributing to this thread through out the week for those of you not caught up, this isnt school there is no late work, in fact i hope people come back to these threads many times to see other comrades thoughts. lastly it seems like you guys really like the summary and study guide I found so I will keep using it in future post (its pretty cool its like sparknotes)
English translation by Richard Philcox – https://ia801708.us.archive.org/3/items/the-wretched-of-the-earth/The Wretched Of The Earth.pdf – you'd be reading from page 42 to 311 of this PDF, 270 pages
English translation by Constance Farrington – https://abahlali.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Frantz-Fanon-The-Wretched-of-the-Earth-1965.pdf
Original French text – https://monoskop.org/images/9/9d/Fanon_Frantz_Les_damnés_de_la_terre_2002.pdf
English audio version – https://inv.tux.pizza/playlist?list=PLZ_8DduHfUd2r1OOCtKh0M6Q9xD5RaR3S – about 12h20m – Alternative links
for someone who claims to be busy, you sure have a great understanding of Fanons work !! I find reading fanons work to be both soothing and invigorating. soothing because he so clearly rejects this perverted morality that tells us the suffering and death brought on my colonialism is natural and just. and invigorating because he lays out the path forward with an sense of self-assuredness that makes me wanna {redacted}. I feel the same way when talking to white moderates, capitalist posing as compassionates be offending me, as kendrick says lol.
I think this is one of there more important take aways, Ive really struggled to articulate this concept myself, how the colonizer can both leave and stay at the same time.
Im so glad you are enjoying this discussion! Dont forget that deadlines are not real here and you can take your time with responses. you have great insight and add so much to the discussion plantifa!
Thank you! I’m looking forward to future discussion posts, thanks again for putting this together Othello!
excited to see you there. and I cant take too much credit @vampire (i forgot how to tag people on here) is the one who got this started. I only hope im doing right by them!
Leading the discourse, providing discussion questions, and taking the time to respond to other poster’s analyses is very important too, and on the second thing, you absolutely are, I’m enjoying the discussions!