User:Wikipedious1
It is obvious that in colonial countries only the peasantry is revolutionary. It has nothing to lose and every thing to gain. The underprivileged and starving peasant is the exploited who very soon discovers that only violence pays. For him there is no compromise, no possibility of concession. Colonization or decolonization: it is simply a power struggle. The exploited realize that their liberation implies using every means available, and force is the first. When Monsieur Guy Mollet capitulated to the French settlers in Algeria in 1956, the Front de la Liberation Nationale (FLN) in a famous tract stated that colonialism only loosens its hold when the knife is at its throat. No Algerian really thought these terms too violent. The tract merely expressed what every Algerian felt deep down: colonialism is not a machine capable of thinking, a body endowed with reason. It is naked violence and only gives in when confronted with greater violence.
We are trapped... in a vicious cycle... of poverty, of ignorance, of apathy, of disease, and of death. And they have these Uncle Toms, Negro leaders, coming to Harlem, telling you and me 'the times are getting better'. Your times will never get better until you make them better.
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Hi, thanks for stopping by. My current areas of editing interest include:
- History
- Black/African American history
- Chinese history, especially 1927-1949 revolution and post-revolution
- Radical left-wing politics and history
- Organized crime, gangs
- Hip-hop music, history and culture, rappers