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Fanon Chapter 2, Manjapra: Racial Capitalism, what does it mean to belong…
Fanon Chapter 2
Racialisation is a hierarchialising process:
It creates a hierarchy within colonised society, not just between the coloniser and the colonised.
- rural vs urban
- urban elites vs urban poor
- rural elites vs peasants
- gender
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In this chapter, Fanon gives a sociological picture of colonial society
He acknowledges that societies were forced to join global capitalism.
However, these societies are historically internally hierarchical.
There are limits to what anti-colonial nationalism can achieve, set by historical contexts.
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feudalism
There was no private property
All land belonged to the sovereignty, which the lord was the embodiment of
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according to fanon, the native bourgeoisie is part of the wretched.
anti-colonialist nationalism has a structural flaw, because a lot of the leaders are native bourgeoisie, which don't have the material resources to take on colonial rule as the actual colonial bourgeoisie had when they overthrew monarchy - because they occupy a subordinate state to the actual bourgeoisie. They also do not have the legitimacy in the eyes of the masses.
in the colonial context, the native bourgeoisie do not possess hegemony
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most societies are patriarchial. colonisers often reorganised and reaffirmed patriarchy to european standards
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in the colonial context, the immediate shared past is the history of colonisation
anyone that claims to represent the colonised nation has to come to terms with the existence of a fragmented society
the challenge for any nationalist movement seeking to overthrow colonialism is to channel the spontaneity of uprisings and revolt, and make them more targeted and powerful.
yogesh says that spontaneous uprisings of violence are not always successful in isolation
any decolonising act is successful, but anti-colonialism and decolonisation is a lot more than just spontaneous unsettling.