Frantz Fanon, born on this day in 1925, was a West Indian Pan-Africanist philosopher and Algerian revolutionary most known for his text The Wretched of the Earth.
Fanon was born to an affluent family on the Caribbean island of Martinique, then a French colony which is still under French control today. As a teenager, he was taught by communist anti-colonial thinker Aimé Césaire (1913 - 2008).
Fanon was exposed to much European racism during World War II. After France fell to the Nazis in 1940, a Nazi government was set up in Martinique by French collaborators, whom he describedas taking off their masks and behaving like “authentic racists”.
Fighting for the Allied forces, Fanon also observed European women liberated by black soldiers preferring to dance with fascist Italian prisoners rather than fraternize with their liberators.
While completing a residency in psychiatry in France completing, Fanon wrote and published his first book, “Black Skin, White Masks” (1952), an analysis of the negative psychological effects of colonial subjugation upon black people.
Following the outbreak of the Algerian revolution in November 1954, Fanon joined the Front de Libération Nationale, a nationalist Algerian party. Working at a French hospital in Algeria, Fanon became responsible for treating the psychological distress of the French troops who carried out torture to suppress anti-colonial resistance, as well as their Algerian victims.
While organizing for Algerian independence in Ghana, Fanon was diagnosed with leukemia that would ultimately kill him. He spent the last year of his life writing his most famous work, “The Wretched of the Earth” (French: Les Damnés de la Terre). The text provides a psychiatric analysis of the dehumanizing effects of colonization and examines the possibilities of anti-colonial liberation
Following a trip to the Soviet Union to treat his leukemia, Fanon came to the U.S. in 1961 for further treatment in a visit arranged by the CIA. Fanon died in Bethesda, Maryland on December 6th, 1961 under the name of “Ibrahim Fanon”, a Libyan nom de guerre he had assumed in order to enter a hospital after being wounded during a mission for the Algerian National Liberation Front.
“In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”
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Does anyone else feel communism has sort of saved your sanity? (If you are a liberal lurker screenshotting this to dunk, you’re friends don’t like you and your mother wishes you would call more) But with everyone’s brains being broken by media, Chatgpt, and huffing pure ideology, having a material orientation of looking at the world feels like it kept me from going down a darker path.
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Fuck work. Fuck what it does to your psychology. I’m fucking tired. I got home after 11pm last night after delivering ~400 packages. I went to bed within the hour and woke up within an hour of having to leave again. They’re offering ‘voluntary time off’ but it’s still fresh in my memory a couple weeks ago when I had to take time off for injury AND they cut me a bunch such that I was in the red for a month. I 2/3 want to take that time off and just whine internally.
spiritual edit before posting: I took the day off. Literally the first time in almost 2 years I took a day off ‘just because.’
Honestly we get most of the lame ass rich crackers if we just imported the REI membership list into the Death Note.
This is a safe place for these feelings but what the Russians did to tsar and his family was a million percent justified and i hope one day the rich in the US get theirs too.
Sitting in the emergency vet parking lot cuz my little buddy stopped eating food and started shitting blood
Never apologize for being into hairy men.
I remember a struggle session of times long past. I can’t remember what started it, but it ended with people calling for mod elections, and then one of the mods called this idea a “colour revolution manifesto”. It was so funny. People used to take this site way too seriously
Aww c’mon Bam, I ain’t tryin ta immanenatize the eschaton, I gotta work tomorro
Not the worst part of the current administration and American culture, but a bunch of dumb hogs are going to make it so I can’t even go to a pub and mindlessly order fries without worrying it isn’t vegan aren’t they
Baby, I don’t need dollar bills to have fun tonight
(I love cheap thrills)
Baby, I don’t need dollar bills to have fun tonight
(I love cheap thrills)
But I don’t need no money
As long as I can feel the beat
I don’t need no money
As long as I keep dancing
Cheap thrills is about third places.
Good god, was playing Vic3 today and my computer suddenly died. Wouldn’t boot, wouldn’t POST, getting crpytic 00 error on mobo. Spent my entire sunday ruling out what was causing the issue. Turns out my Asrock mobo and 9800x3d cpu have a known issue, solved by a bios update. I did the update a long time ago, but apparently it did permanent damage while it was unfixed. Anyways, the CPU died and luckily BestBuy near me had one I could pick up. Got it replaced quickly and stuff is working again thank god.
Tomorrow gotta figure out how to RMA this CPU since its still under warranty. What a waste of a weekend.
idk who to tell this to, so I’ll say it here: I felt a panic attack coming from browsing linkedin and shut the tab before it could escalate
I appreciate this place, even though its online, as a space for people who are sane and and can see through the capitalist bullshit veneer on top of society for what it is
Thousands chanted ‘send us to Palestine to fight the Zionists’ while the Algerian president was at the Algerian cup final
July 9
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Sorry for the instagram link, here’s an alternate though
I’d post in the news thread but its already so old, I hope comrades saw this already
OK chapos I’ve got two good dogs here. They will receive pats upon request. Balls in your court
