Césaire and the Sickness of Colonialism
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6 min readFeb 14, 2023
Aimé Césaire, in his Discourse on Colonialism, shows that fascism and imperialism are only extensions of bourgeois liberal humanism, and as such, the project of Europe is indefensible.
Césaire takes recourse to an analogy of civilisational illness which besets upon bourgeois society, a society that is unable to solve the problems it creates, and has thus sentenced itself to its impending death…
