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    (OTHER WORKS BY FRANTZ FANON, PUBLISHED BY GROVE PRESS: Skin, White Macks A Dying Colonialism “Toward the African Revolution THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH Frantz Fanon Translated from the French by Richard Philcox with commentary by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K, Bhabha New York consierble gin fom the war athe expense ofthe people who, a always are pepaed to scree evening and sak the national so ith heir blood. The mitt who conn the colonial war machine with hs rudimentary ewures te. nize that while he s demolishing colonial oppresion he indict dng anotber ste of explotaton, Sach a dir cove galing pin andiekenng. was once also simple withthe fd on one sie ad the god on the ther. Theis telly ofthe early day place bya pena which Allocate the consciousness, The people coer tat the ing tous phenomenen of exploation can ase a black ov Ab ice. They ey tea, but in at he treason ot atonal but soca and they ned to be ag to ry thet On the arduous path to rationality the people mist alto learn to give up thet Simplistic pereption ofthe opps. The species sling up before thet very eyes. They resize ha cetin colonists do tot acctmb to the ambient climate of erminal hysteria and remain aprt om the str species. Such men, who wee ssomataly relegated to the monolith bloe ofthe feign Presene, conden He colonial war The wanda aly eps when poner ofthe species change sides, g "natin," and wh seer to undergo string te and death These examples defuse the overall hatred which the colo nized feel toward the foreign settles. The colonized welcome these men with open arms and inant exces of emotion tend to place absolute confidence in them. In the metropolis, stereo Iyped as the wicked, bloodthirsty stepmother, nvmerous and sometimes prominent voices take a stnd, condemn untesey edly their government’ policy of war ad tge tha the national will ofthe colonized finally be taken into consideration. Sol. lier desert colonialist rams, others explicitly refute to fight against people's freedom, are jailed and suffer forthe sake of the people’ right to independence and the management of helt ov afi. I ' ll ‘HANDLUR AND WEAKSESS OF seontanETY 6 ‘Ts ln longing pbc cnn umber oe sors. The rca ant dimemton'y tance pate sees Nt eey Hak or Mint aay gee oan tine a colons prenchetCacnato unter ere alin hing A hi oe cng, eee Ail The tak of bringing the people to matvake a tedhat by nig ganna elm he elogea loc cece les The poner of ely orate end scored the stg akngtnto acute ae ee tesand he movements vibes and etc The slong emonsatesis avenger expnng alee Shough epeens, eng bxter wantonly tin sonscounes aks one stp bch Ese npr + oa evel ed take ewe up in ey og thoughout he neon. The econ foes ouch a Sonal and demons ts ty ery ne nese those within the movement ehovonetincrae ieee and dary, the leaden stnds bythe principles worked ot nthe fit aan nen girly nan nslibeaton. Thetis hatiyanesnton oad inva ss whch pay tone, ba te ha ter ipeot aay ah sing emma tone ‘hich psy comtreraatenay, hen arta ‘his Ft pre tel tal at tame costa wal thot bing dom be mnemenetin see The nationalist militant who fled the town, revolted by the emagogic and reformist maneuvers ofthe leaders, and dil sioned by “polities,” discovers in the fie anew polite orien: tation which in no way resembles the ald, Ths new pais sin % THe WRT oF ea the hands of cadres and leaders working with the de of stony who use their muscles and thet brains to lead the stgae for liberation. Its national, revohstionary, and ealective. Ths new reality which the colonized ate now exposed to, exists by action alone. By exploding the former colonial reality the staggle un, cover unknown facets, brings to light new meanings and under lines contradictions which wece camouflaged by ths reality. The people in arms, the people whose srugle enacts this new rea ys the people who live it, march on, ed fo coleman aad forewarned aginst any ettempt at mysiication or gloifeation ofthe nation. Violence alone, perpetiated by the people, viene onganized and guided by the lesdership, provides the key fo the masses to decipher socal realy. Without this stuggle; witht this praxis there is nothing but earnval parade and alot of hot that is lefts a sight readaptation, afew tefrm atthe top, a flag, and down atthe botom a shapeless, writhing nse, stl ited inthe Dark Ages The Trials and Tribulations of National Consciousness History teaches us thatthe anticolonialistseuggle is not autor ‘matically writen trom a nationalist perspective. Over along Period ofime the colonized have devoted thei energy to clan ‘ating iniquities such as forced Tabor, cosporal punishes unequal wages, and the resrtion of plitcl nigh, This for democracy against man’s oppresion gradually emeges fame 8 universalist, neoliberal confusion to ative, sometimes labore, ously, ata demand for nationhood, Bt the unprepaedes of the elite, the lack of practical es between them andthe mae theit apathy and, ye, thee cowardice atthe enicial moment in the struggle, ae the cause of tage trials and tbulations Instead of being the coordinated crystallization ofthe people's iinmermos aspirations, instead of being the most tangible inte. diate product of popular mobilization, national consciousness nothing but a crude, empty, agile sll The cracls inte, plain how easy its for young independent counties to switch ‘ck fom nation to ethnic group and from sat ta ibe a re, session which isso terribly detrimental and prejudicial wo the development ofthe nation and national unity. As we shall se, such shortcomings and dangers derive historically fiom the fn ‘capacity ofthe national bourgeoisie underdeveloped countries ” 98 ‘owner OF aa to rationalize popular pra, in other words their incapacity to he characteristic, vitally endemic weakness ofthe under:

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