Status Updates From Les Damnés de la terre

The bourgeoisie attempts to mask its mediocrity by ostentatious projects for individual prestige, chromium plated American cars, vacations on the French Riviera and weekends in neon lit nightclubs.

The bourgeoisie of Europe was dynamic, educated and secular and fully succeeded in its undertaking of capital accumulation and endowed the nation with a minimum of prosperity. In the under developed countries there was no genuine bourgeoisie but rather an inquisitive, voracious and ambitious petty cast, dominated by a small time racketeer mentality, content with the dividends paid out by the former colonial power.

The bourgeois phase in the underdeveloped countries is only justified if the national bourgeoisie sufficiently powerful, economically and technically, to be able to build a bourgeois society, to create the conditions for developing a sizable proletariat, to mechanize agriculture, and finally pave the way for a genuine national culture.

The failure of nations following independence: wealth and poverty, the army and the police forming the pillars of the regime who are advised by foreign "experts." Caravan of corruption

The national bourgeoisie of the under mdeveloped countries is incapable of fulfilling any kind of mission.

The local cadres of the party are appointed to administrative jobs, the party itself becomes an administration, the militants fall back into line and adopt the hollow title of citizen. Now that they have fulfilled their historic mission of bringing the bourgeoisie to power, they are firmly asked to withdraw so that the bourgeoisie can quietly fulfill its own mission.

After independence the party sinks in
to a profound lethargy.

Yk I wish this was split down into more sections and not just 5 long chapters. It’s like he goes from idea to idea from paragraph to paragraph and it’s hard to follow