Discourse on Colonialism – Aimé Césaire

Perhaps two extracts can exemplify how powerful this writing is: “The fact is that the so-called European civilization – “Western” civilization – as it has been shaped by two centuries of bourgeois rule, is incapable of solving the two major problems to which its existence has given rise: the problem of the proletariat and the colonial problem”. “What he cannot forgive Hitler for is not for the crime in itself, for the crime against the man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the “coolies” of India and the “niggers” of Africa.

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