Why Frantz Fanon Matters for Today's Struggles? Part 1 of 2

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@mrwalkway4740 6 жыл бұрын

Took an ethics class from this guy and he assigned black skin white masks to us. Pretty uncomfortable read for an annoying white libertarian like me at the time, but it really opened my eyes because fanon talks race in a way that’s so much more directly and thoroughly than many others. I’m super glad I took that class with peter, I never thought a 100 level community college ethics class would help me confront challenge my own biases and beliefs so deeply

@mrwalkway4740 4 жыл бұрын

Lt col George Armstrong Custer cool

@muneer75 6 жыл бұрын

Fanon is really a phenomenal. His insights into intricate superstructures of colonialism & racism creates a distinct discourse at a political as well as well intellectual level. As a psychiatrist he has a deep dig down the psychological state racism creates in the form of inferiority complexes. He teaches well of the strategic paradigms , political trends of the colonialist bourgeoisie & his value conveyance to the colonized native. Decolonization is a violent phenomenon, a veritable creation of new species.

@muneer75 4 жыл бұрын

It's because they don't want to listen realities about them. That's it.

@moniqueloomis9772 4 жыл бұрын

@@muneer75 Well said! 👏👏👏

@ponchodawson7741 Жыл бұрын

Cognitive dissonance.

@Mathis100-qw7wi 2 ай бұрын

“A veritable creation of new species” could you elaborate?

@mdubusizingelwayo1013 8 жыл бұрын

Right on Prof. we are still listening: shout out from thehague/southafrika

@anovosedlik 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this very important resurrection of Fanon's incredibly relevant findings. He's a hero.

@unapologetichero7910 5 жыл бұрын

Great talk, and he's absolutely correct about the importance of Fanon's work and the crucial role of thinking about aspects other than class, and applying this work in thinking more carefully about identify politics, class and race and what the left should do at this historic moment. But it's very annoying and exasperating to see him falling back on the "horrors of communist China" and "Mao killed more people than Stalin" tropes, without even attempting to situate China in the context of the anti-colonial struggles happening at the time, or China's assistance to black Africa, or Mao's contributions to conceptualizing of and promoting the peasantry as a revolutionary force (a creative application of Marxist historical materialism tailored to the concrete conditions of a situation, and that has many parallels to Fanon), contrary to the "traditional" Marxist takes which saw the peasantry as not very important. In many ways, China made the furthest advance towards communism under Mao (yes, it all unraveled and these gains were reversed, but are there no positive lessons to take away from China's historical experience?). But apparently, none of this is worthy of mention. China's experience only serves by way of negative example to Peter.

@ughlisha2758 3 жыл бұрын

Thank u for this comment

@yacobz 6 жыл бұрын

This is EXACTLY what my development studies curricula is overlooking (19:20)

@matthewfrazier9254 6 жыл бұрын

RACE DOESNT CREATE RACISM. RACISM CREATES RACE. The differences between people enforced by colonialism and xenophobic tendencies YIELDS the eventual crystallization of identities of blackness and whiteness both of which are predicated fundamentally on racism. Thank you Fanon and Deleuze.

@harpalnatt45 6 жыл бұрын

Fanon well developed the idea of spontaneous act of lumpen proletariat. They are together with peasantry, other revolutionary classes and led a mass movement against colonialism in the world.

@cesardonosozambrano8372 4 жыл бұрын

Hello friends, I have a concern, for connoisseurs of the subject, what is the work of Fanon that they consider best to enter their philosophy: 1. Black skins, white masks or 2. The damned of the earth? Regards! ✌🏻✒️

@moniqueloomis9772 4 жыл бұрын

Why don't you research that. Or, here is a novel idea: READ both. 😊

@chrlau1628 4 жыл бұрын

Black skin white masks first then Wretched of the earth as Fanon revisits important ideas therr.

@canyildiz5966 3 жыл бұрын

Wretched* of the earth

@frankle326 4 жыл бұрын

What about the transformation of capital problem?

@OrganicTechnocrat 3 жыл бұрын

Great talk. Q: Where does Karl Marx say that underdeveloped Nations can skip capitalist phase and go directly from the proto-socialism peasant society into future modern socialism?

@OrganicTechnocrat 3 жыл бұрын

Our response to the question .... "Is there an alternative to capitalism?" 1. Race is not secondary or reducible to class! (Not orthodox Marxism) 2. Race is understood only through understanding capitalist relations (and not reducible to identity politics) Fanon: "When it comes to colonial situation the marxian analysis needs to be slightly stretched"

@OrganicTechnocrat 3 жыл бұрын

15:00

@johansigg3869 Жыл бұрын

Full disclosure I clicked because in the thumbnail you look like Adam Sandler delivering a lecture on psychoanalysis

@zebraylonwoodruff6773 3 жыл бұрын

I think people dont want to accept that Marx said nothing about enjoying goods and services. Simply they should be. What "to be able to make one world where many worlds are possible"

@jrandkh5924 24 күн бұрын

Ask a Cuban, Nicaraguan, Vietnamese, NKorean, or Venezuelan if socialism or communism has been a dismal failure. Or anyone conscious of the western imperialist strangling (with sanctions, embargoes, NED/CIA interference) of all existing socialist states the past century

@raelsackey104 Жыл бұрын

We have not seen socialism. What you are referencing is state capitalism. Lenin admitted that the USSR had not become a socialist state, however, he didn’t survive to secure the transformation to socialism from state capitalism. Stalin came in, and had no such conflict. He stated the socialism had been achieved, and had no desire to transform society according to the tenets of true socialism.