Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961). (excerpts)
(e basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism,
indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters
today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth.
Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the
consequences may be.“For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first
and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all,
dignity.“And it is clear that in the colonial countries the peasants alone are revolutionary,
for they have nothing to lose and everything to gain. The starving peasant, outside
the class system is the first among the exploited to discover that only violence pays.
For him there is no compromise, no possible coming to terms; colonization and
decolonization is simply a question of relative strength.“The 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.†anon, F. (1961). The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press: New York, NY.

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