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Aimé Cesaire, poet, leader of the Communist Party of Martinique & Prof of Frantz Fanon, on " thingification" which is the destruction of the colonized & their past. Hierarchy & police are essential to colonial rule. "Discourse on Colonialism." -- AC.
Fascism was present before it was brutally applied to the Jews. Before it caused outrage, fascism was applied to the Algerians, the Indian Coolies & the Africans. #AimeCesaire
European universalism (humanism) is based on erasure. #AimeCesaire
The white masters according to Aimé Cesaire:
Owner
Ruler
Teacher
Comrade
"Discourse on Colonialism"
#AimeCesaire155
Owner
Ruler
Teacher
Comrade
"Discourse on Colonialism"
#AimeCesaire155
Western Civilization can't solve two problems that it created: the exploitation of the proletariat & colonialism. Colonization decivilizes the colonizer. Pseudo-humanism is narrow, fragmentary, incomplete, biased & racist. #AimeCesaire
Christianity laid down a dishonest equation:
Christianity = civilization
Paganism = savagery
It resulted in racist consequences.
Christianity = civilization
Paganism = savagery
It resulted in racist consequences.
If #AimeCesaire is correct that Western Civilization always drags barbarism by its side & the most recent result was the Nazis, aren't today's barbarisms nuclear bombs & ecocide? The West (esp. the bourgeoisie) cultivated ecocide in taking land away from Native peoples.
The capitalist is incapable of establishing a concept of rights for all humans & incapable of establishing a system of individual ethics. #AimeCesaire
The colonizing man (patriarchy intended):
Classroom monitor
Army sergeant
Prison guard
Slave driver
Indigenous Man (human):
Instrument of production
#AimeCesaire
Classroom monitor
Army sergeant
Prison guard
Slave driver
Indigenous Man (human):
Instrument of production
#AimeCesaire
Standard Oil & Royal Durch are not a consolation for the loss of the Aztecs & Incas.
Western bourgeois civilization presents a "progressive" facade while obscuring the exploitation of its required opposite:
Metropole
colony
Declaration of Independence slavery...
Western bourgeois civilization presents a "progressive" facade while obscuring the exploitation of its required opposite:
Metropole
colonyDeclaration of Independence
slavery...
The boomerang of colonization when it comes back to decivilize the colonizer.
At the end of capitalism there is Hitler. #AimeCesaire
African societies were communal, anti-capitalist, democratic, fraternal & cooperative. They were thus in fact. They did not pretend to be an idea. They were destroyed by imperialism. #AimeCesaire
Colonialist Europe has grafted modern abuse onto ancient injustice & hateful racism onto old inequality. Europe is responsible for the highest heap of corpses in history.
The barbarism of Europe is only surpassed by the barbarism of the U.S., aka, the decent fellow, the respectable bourgeois.
