Status Updates From Los condenados de la tierra

This is so incredibly dense, dear god. I can't read this in one sittting there is so much happening

tell me you’re in grad school without telling me you’re in grad school

The disconnect between the new governments and the rural interior, and tribal parties that oppose centralization and unity and denounce the one party dictatorship.

The dreams in the douars and villages are not those of the children in the cities dreaming of luxury goods or passing their exams but dreams of identification with such and such a hero whose heroic death still brings tears to their eyes.

In the industrialized countries the peasant masses are generally the least politically conscious, the least organized as well as the most anarchistic elements. They are characterized by a series of features – individualism, lack of discipline, the love of money, fits of rage, and deep depression – defining an objectively reactionary behavior.

foreword and intro finally done