Frantz Fanon

[vivascargill1]

i always hated sartre I think he was a coward he managed to miss even demonstrations--Fanon is important but if one has to pick non-algeriams then Alleg and Audin are more important that Fanon they were ready to die for algeria Audin did. Beware leftist intellectuals bit homage to those ready to die

[fr3shboiijo]

what is the name of the movie shown here?

[cobrolchain2]

@fr3shboiijo The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom

[redword2007]

@fr3shboiijo

The Battle of Algiers.

[redakaaaa]

this film is sheer colonial propoganda. Fanon was not a terrorist, he was a respected intellectual supported by amongst other Jean Paul Satre. long live Fanon. Shame on this filth.

[cobrolchain2]

@redakaaaa You're correct on that, which is why I didn't include the part where they compared Fanon's ideas to Pol Pot.

[DJpopel]

The wretched of the earth is the ONE book that the white man DOES NOT WANT YOU TO READ.

(Im white by the way)

GLOBALSLAVEREVOLT 2011

peace

[ccarlos07]

"mindless zombies...", just like in the modern colony of Puerto Rico.

[tamaduni]

you cannot have dialogue of peace with one who is killing you ----you will not be speaking the same language ---the only solution is picking up the AK ---you have to speak the language your oppressor is speaking and understands

[mikezephyr]

for sure, it's an easy assessment when things are starkly black and white (no pun intended, of course!), like say the nazi occupation of poland, or the occupation of any number of african countries in the 20th century- violence meets counterviolence.

But my trouble is what about those enjoying the comfortable standards of living in the current political era, right now? How can you convince revolutionary action to people awash in convenience and illusions?

[vivascargill]

my father was at setif in 1945 and was helpless witness to the massacre of the Algerians- may I make two critiques of this splendid video 1) its assertion that the fln was marxist--it was not--an error the french paras made over and over. Indeed the Algerian CP PARTICIPATED in the massacre at Setif. 2) Sartre talked but Henri Alleg acted BTW your videos of Bernadette are terrific

[HalTuberman]

BAM! The nail has been hit on the head. You see how the American Democratic party is a lukewarm and plastic version of liberalism?

[shadowhalfcast]

I'm sure this is from 'the power of nightmares'. It latter follows how these ideas influenced the revolution in Iran and radical islamic movements in Eygpt.

[bhstwo]

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[kruger97]

No, it's from "The Trap".

[khan0890]

is this from the power of nightmares?

[cobrolchain2]

I believe so, the programme went under a couple of different titles.

[docflyte]

I appreciate this video, not because i Algerian form Algiers, but because it makes a difference between a terrorism and fighting for freedom, ben Mhidi (an Algerian martyr who was arrested in battle of Algiers, says to the journalists about bombing and killing innocents : Give us you bomber (french) we will give our Bags (they usually use a bags fulfilled with a handmade bombs)

Regards

[cobrolchain2]

We have a saying in Ireland that comes from Brendan Behan - "the terrorist is the one with the smaller bomb".

[docflyte]

I AGREE!!!!!

[bob4istheman]

apart from the ira who have big bombs to kill lots of innocent pople

[cobrolchain2]

Which is nothing compared to say the billions of pounds the British government spends on Trident alone.

[bob4istheman]

wich it has never let off in a pub in london dery

[cobrolchain2]

Would that be the place where Britain's Parachute Regiment shot dead 14 civil rights protestors in 1972? The same Regiment that had went on a killing spree in Ballymurphy in Belfast just five months earlier and were used by Britain specifically as a death squad.

[bob4istheman]

if were so colonial why did we arest uster uoinest to

[vivascargill1]

@docflyte you mean the great  Larbi ben m'hidi

[docflyte]

@vivascargill1 Exactly, The Great Larbi Ben Mhidi

[kioko10kiki]

I like this video because the freedom has to be taken not given!

[brotherwise]

Both FANON & SARTRE insisted that emancipatory VIOLENCE has a constitutive effect on human 'being' while oppressive VIOLENCE has a dehumanizing effect on both colonized and colonizer.

[brotherwise]

I usually enjoy Adam Curtis' documentary work, however, he comes off as an apologist of western imperialism when he says "the west exercises control by getting inside people's minds and turning them into passive zombies". Then he says that Fanon endorsed violence as the "only way for individuals to free themselves of this".

This is a deliberate and disingenuous mis-reading which obscures the original VIOLENCE which serves as the initial foundation for western imperialism.

[AnotherCuppaCoffee]

Glorifying violence was the West's way of getting into people's mind. Not that I'm against armed revolution. But as Michael Connolly said the worst oppression is what the oppressors do to us in making us killers.

[brotherwise]

anothercup, I disagree, it wasn't through "glorifying violence" but by carrying out violence.

[AnotherCuppaCoffee]

I certainly approve of violence when needed in the struggle for human justice, including anti-colonial struggles. Both of my parents were active in an armed revolution that won a nation's freedom but fell short of wise nation building.

[brotherwise]

no doubt, it's also ironic that FANON himself warned about the challenges and pitfalls of nation building which helps put his endorsement of liberationist violence in the proper context.