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When I search for man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession… — Frantz Fanon

Anti-colonial literature · Political literature

When I search for man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

In the original French

Quand je cherche l’homme dans la technique et dans le style européens, je vois une succession de négations de l’homme, une avalanche de meurtres.

Frantz Fanon
The Wretched of the Earth · 1961
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Fanon, Frantz. Les Damnes de la Terre [The Wretched of the Earth]. Francois Maspero, 1961, conclusion.

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