A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.
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Colinialism hardly ever exploits the whole of a country. It contents itself with bringing to light the natrual resources, which it extracts, and exports to meet the needs of the mother country's industries, thereby allowing certain sectors of the colony to become relatively rich. But the rest of the colony follows its path of under-development and poverty, or at all events sinks into it more deeply.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Colonialism extracts resources for the benefit of the colonizer, leaving the colonized in poverty.
Frantz Fanon's quote highlights the inequitable nature of colonialism, which often focuses on exploiting a country's natural resources to enrich certain segments, typically aligned with the interests of the colonizing nation. This process leads to a stark division within the colonized society, where wealth accumulates in a few sectors while the majority face deeper levels of underdevelopment and poverty, ultimately illustrating the detrimental long-term impacts of colonial practices.
Themes
ColonialismExploitationResourcesPovertyUnderdevelopment
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about social justice, one might quote Fanon's perspective on the ongoing impacts of colonialism.
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