The Wretched of the Earth

Changed my views on many things...I'm so glad I spent the time carefully reading this.

This is the first book that I picked up that dealt with colonization from a psychological perspective. It deciphers the intricate elements that are used to establish bondage over African people's minds. Most of which we are oblivious to.

This is the only truly revolutionary manifesto of the 20th century. Fanon excoriates colonialism & post-colonial nationalist governments. As a psychiatrist, he is one of the original theorists for the social origins of mental illness. Was this guy radicial? He once berated Jean-Paul Sartre for not being radical enough! So Sartre wrote this book's foreward.

Fanon's work is one of the most influential works of the 1960's on the impact of racism and colonialism on the thinking of then emerging African states.This is required reading for understanding radical thought among U.S Blacks in the 1960-1970's.

In an attempt to "show us what we've been missing" in terms of Marxist analysis Fanon hits the mark squarely in showing the proletarianized nature of the colonialized states. A must read for anyone interested in contemporary Marxism, interests in the 3d world, or flyfishermen