Leftist Reading: The Wretched of the Earth Part 21

Leftist Reading

Episode 76:

Content Warnings this episode for:
Mental health, trauma, eugenics.

This week we’re finishing The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
The full book is available online here:
https://monoskop.org/images/6/6b/Fanon_Frantz_The_Wretched_of_the_Earth_1963.pdf

[Part 1-5]
Concerning Violence

[Part 6]
Violence in the International Context

[Part 7 - 9]
Spontaneity: Its Strength and Weakness

[Part 10 - 14]
The Pitfalls of National Consciousness

[Part 15-17]
On National Culture
-Poem
-Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom

[Part 18]
Colonial War and Mental Disorders
Series A
[Part 19]
Series B
Series C
[Part 20]
Series D - First Reading

[Part 21 - This Week]
Series D - Second Reading - 00:58
Conclusion - 12:29
Brief discussion - 22:30

Footnotes:

1) 02:18
It is moreover clear that this identification with the image pic­ture produced by the European was very ambivalent. In fact the European seemed to be paying homage—an equally ambivalent homage—to the violent, passionate, brutal, jealous, proud, arrogant Algerian who stakes his life on a detail or on a word. We should point out in passing that in their dealings with the French of France, the Europeans of Algeria tend to identify themselves more and more with this image of the Algerian in opposition to the French.

2) 08:14
Mountain village in Algeria.—Trans.