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The Wretched of the Earth

A work by Frantz Fanon, first published in 1961

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Key facts

First published
19612
Edition korrents quotes
Grove Press, 2004 edition; tr. Richard Philcox3
Claims on korrents
211

What korrents draws from it

korrents’ reading of claims quoted word for word from the book; each opens the quote and where it sits.

  1. Decolonization, whatever name it goes by, is always a violent event (opens korrents.com)1

  2. Decolonization is truly the creation of new men (opens korrents.com)1

  3. In the colonies cause is effect: people are rich because they are white, and white because they are rich (opens korrents.com)1

  4. Destroying the colonial world means nothing less than demolishing the colonist's sector, burying it or banishing it from the territory (opens korrents.com)1

  5. In colonial countries only the peasantry is revolutionary, because it has nothing to lose and everything to gain (opens korrents.com)1

  6. The starving, exploited peasant is the one who very soon discovers that only violence pays (opens korrents.com)1

Connections

Sources

  1. The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 2004 edition; tr. Richard Philcox) (korrents) (opens korrents.com)
  2. The Wretched of the Earth, Q2741364 (Wikidata) (opens wikidata.org)
  3. The Wretched of the Earth (Grove Press, 2004 edition; tr. Richard Philcox) (books.google.com) (opens books.google.com)

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