How come he cannot recognize his own cruelty now turned against him? How come he can't see his own savagery as a colonist in the savagery of these oppressed peasants who have absorbed it through every pore and for which they can find no cure?
— Jean-Paul Sartre Modern

Existentialism

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Preface to Frantz Fanon's 'The Wretched of the Earth'

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1961

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Controversial

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