Jean-Paul Sartre, in his introduction to Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, had written this, which I had once underlined and memorized and which I found that the eschatological muscle had also marked: “In order to triumph, the national revolution must be socialist; if its career is cut short, if the native bourgeoisie takes over power, the new State, in spite of its formal sovereignty, remains in the hands of the imperialists.”