The Life & Works of Frantz Fanon
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- Guest: Adam Shatz is the author of the biography The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon. He is also the US editor of the London Review of Books and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other
publications. His podcast is called Myself & Others. - Zábava
I have read the wretched of the earth and black skin white masks- his ideas speak to us today and everyday- one of the encyclopaedic minds and resources for humanity
He worked with my mother at the Blida Hospital.
Thank you for sharing this educational video on Frantz Fanon. I had heard of him, but didn’t know much about him. I want to read “The Wrecthed of the Earth”.
you won’t regret it !! best book to exist
Adam Shatz did an amazing job on this book. Highly recommended.
This is one of the best lectures I have watched on CZcams. Thank you.
The magnitude of French violence on Algerians was unreal.
As bad as what they did to Haitians. I’m blown away that France forced Haiti to pay “reparations” up to 1947. Absolutely disgusting
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I wonder if the Israelis took lessons from them?
@@Mae-px1fl I tend to think the German Nazis are at the apex of Israel's mentors. Chemical weapons, forced sterilizations, apartheid, genocide, etc
Check out the torture of Ben Mehiedi
Man! Saw this and thought of how the Wretched of the Earth changed me and the way I look at the world. His understanding of cognitive dissonance and his neo-marxist critiques shaped my study, college debate experience and my coaching of debate in college.
OMG! the first I ever heard about Fanon; was from Dr. H. Boima Fahnbulleh. This interview opened my mind to do more research on this great revolutionist. His idea of a revolutionary philosophy is not just about rhetoric; but someone willing to be bloody to achieve his revolutionary aims and objectives. His argument about political oppression and suppression of people, lead him into Algeria before the outbreak of the war. His writings and participation in almost all revolutionary activities from the Caribbean to Africa; serves as an encyclopedia to the very revolutionary ideas that shaped the anti colonial movement.
A great discussion to open up ones eyes and mind to the life of this individual who unfortunately I am just now discovering due to the lackluster education establisment in the US. It is inspiring to know his work influenced other iconic revolutionary figures around the world. Revolution is exactly what we need in our current times.
Added the book to my my reading list! Also, the timing of the interview couldn’t be better, Fanon seems to be one of the most relevant thinkers for the current anti-colonial struggle in Palestine
I read it in the early 70s in college. Good book.
U should get the mediation on wretch of the earth by yaki. As a study guide with it . Very good
It's core text in African History & so called Egyptian studies!!! African Antiquities ❤🌎 Actually.
The Most (not discussed) SCIENTIST!
Wretched of the Earth ! What a title 👏 😅🇬🇧 🇬🇭 🇺🇸 🌎
FANON FOREVER!! 🙌🏽❤ I hope that when Shatz said Fanon was given the same treatment as people like Malcolm X he meant X was also underestimated, not that he deserved to be considered an untheorized promoter of violence
Malcolm promoted self- defence ...actually!!
@@WesleyWattley-xy4fg “untheorized”
What an incredible interview. Shatz provided striking insights that are not normally available on Fanon.
Great insight about Mr. Shatz
I finally read "The wretched of the Earth" a couple of years ago (along with a very interesting biography of Sankara) and I thought I could learn a bit more about his life watching this. And it was indeed a very good and interesting biography, thank you.
I’m a man of letters. Language and literature. Though I insist that I’m half baked in view of the neverending sky of literature, language, political economy, anthropology (and language), communication…it is an insatiable mammoth of thought. Thank you for this channel. With love from Kenya.
Much more man of letter's..say much more😅🌎 🫡 🖖
Big up Kenya 🇰🇪 👏 📚 📖 ⚖️ 🕯!
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In the 1960s there was a great movie about the Algerian War (the title was something like The Battle for Algiers” if memory serves) vs. France that was continually shown at the best theater in D.C. at a time when the Vietnam War was getting on the radar of young adults. As opponents of the Vietnam War we cheered the extremely violent rebellion against cruel bullies of power. Anyway, it is nice to hear Fran Fanon being praised again, as for anti-Imperialists of that era, his work was very popular. Silly side note, back then everyone smoked ciggies, including in movie theaters.
Long Live Frantz Fanon
Unfortunately the CIA killed him (and others with his message).
Thank you for the EDUCATION ❤
I enjoyed this
First time here... EXCELENT! Thank you very much.
Adam Shatz: So grounded in the midst of great knowledge!
#judeuslivresporPALESTINALIVRE
Mr shatz is an excellent speaker. I enjoyed the interview very much.
Smiled when I heard this writer respond with such diverse details. Few people know their subject in such an objective manner. Brilliant questions brilliant responses. Congrats
Excellent video I learned alot about Fanon's life and teachings thanks
Thank you so so so much. This interview touched my heart so deeply.
It's a piece of art of love and admiration of a great human being Frantz Fanon.
So greatly Appreciated. Thank you for your professionalism
Thanks for this wonderful work about this great man.
Thank you so much to have bring to my awareness one of my compatriot. I am from Brittany and if we hear about Césaire in France, I have never heard about Frantz Fanon who I am discovering with you today. Beautiful discovery!
En accord avec la theme, merci mille fois!!
Thank you so much for this excellent conversation. Timely @timeless topic. I enjoyed listening in to the program.
I love this. Instantly.
How apropos to have this talk today as Gaza is in the throes of being swallowed alive...
"Swallowed" indeed, and the friends of a friend just watch Israel do her thing. damn shame!
Fascinating exposition 👍🙏
I have had Fanon’s Books for years and never opened them. I’m thankful for the historical placement of this interview which gave me the introduction needed to no read them.
There is a plethora of Caribbean writers, their works, the advent of novels reflecting our reality, told in our voice….post-Independence era across the Caribbean n the African Continent , saw the rise of our literature….
Thank you for a very interesting story and discussion about the life of Frantz Fanon. I wonder what he would think about the events in Israel Palestine from October to now. Perhaps his insights could help us rise above the flurry of condemnation and understand the complex experience of people undertaking armed struggle.
Thank you
Wonderful and timely, subscribing, thank you!
Thank you. New material for me.
Greetings from PARIS and from global black family.
Very interesting. This conversation reminds me of discussions I have had about white anti-Black violence and my take on it is the Black community will continuously be subject to such violence because Whites think that Blacks were freed by white Northerners and not by our own hands. Blacks, they feel did not do what Haitians did and so Whites think we were slackers in our own freedom. Consequently Southern Whites (some displaced to the North today) have been testing their theories, attacking Black people on an ad hoc basis and seeking dominance all over again.
Black Americans will need to understand why we are being frequently physically challenged and how we will need to respond. Peaceful talk goes only so far. As soon as MLK was gone our tormentors re-emerged and especially when they have accommodating white leadership like Donald Trump. We will need the marauders to back up on a large scale to make it permanent. We cannot retreat from that violence until we have secured the former slave States as our own, as partial compensation for slavery.
The January 6 US Capitol mob arrestees were polled and interviewed, and the one binding thought among the majority in this university study revealed their concern that blacks, Chicanos, Asians and indigenous tribal peoples were "Making too much progress." In the context of a serious if foolish attempt to "Take over" this tells me they wanted to take control over the above mentioned lives, and employ repression.
After France fell to the Nazis in 1940, Vichy French naval troops were blockaded on Martinique. Forced to remain on the island, French sailors took over the government from the Martiniquan people and established a collaborationist Vichy regime. In the face of economic distress and isolation under the blockade, they instituted an oppressive regime; Fanon described them as taking off their masks and behaving like "authentic racists". Residents made many complaints of harassment and sexual misconduct by the sailors. The abuse of the Martiniquan people by the French Navy influenced Fanon, reinforcing his feelings of alienation and his disgust with colonial racism. At the age of seventeen, Fanon fled the island as a "dissident" (a term used for Frenchmen joining Gaullist forces), traveling to Dominica to join the Free French Forces. After three attempts, he made it to Dominica, but it was too late to enlist.
Another Martinican worth checking out. Euzhan Palcy.
VThis video is indispensable for mental emancipación of all. The guest is a gift to humanity. Where have you been hidden from us, Adam?
Thank you for a very informative video!
Wonderful talk with a very educated and well-informed Guess.
What a wonderful and educational interview, thanks for sharing it. Subscribed.
Enjoyed this conversation while doing my chores.
Congratulations 👏
Impressive talks of high levels of mind combing
Such brilliant analysis: Sartre is NOT remembered as a violent man .....whereas Frantz Fanon is viewed differently.....
Interesting, Informed and Informative!!!
Thanks. Adam and hoast,
Fanon's daughter Mireille Mendès France Fanon is still alive, she is 75, and she is an activist.
This was really appetizing ❤
Read this in high school in the early 70s.
fascinating thankyou
This is our first community psychiatrist. He described the "pollution" generated by corporate economies.
A great anti colonial fighter and thinker , we all colonized people are great full to him ❤️👍
Excellent concise presentation from Adam Shatz. An historically opportune moment to re-examine the work of Franz Fanon, both in western europe with its 'official government-led islamophobia' and the colonialist/imperialist genocide in Palestine.
It's all about whiteness.
New sub. This is an education for me ... have never known abt him❤.
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Why saying violent revolution of slave? So much contradictions in one sentence!!!!!
All slave revolution shouldn't and must not comprehend as being violent but human & justified
After the independence Algerians were very proud but went through identity crisis, those who didn't speak French were looked at down by their owns especially in the big cities and it took at least decade to overcome the interiorized fear of the French and the feeling of inferiority.
Very interesting
The leaders im Europe and America haven't rationalized leading.
Donovan had a song about Algeria
Replaying in Gaza today.
Interesting information & insight into why the outrage & reaction at a Black Hi School Student writing an essay on Franz Fanon in the selectively distributed movie LUCE... 😮
The first I've heard of him
@00:06:02 I HAD TO STOP AND ADD MY 2PENNIES, UNTIL THE MOORS FORM STATES AS PER THE MOROCCAN EMPIRE TREATY STATE, CONFUSION MAY PERSIST...!!?(2.14.2024...)
Anyone should be outraged by killing civilians in acts of terror in anti-colonial war but wander why Americans don't seem outraged by the mass shootings which are acts of terror too. Innocent civilians, kids, adults get killed, or badly injured, handicapped, same horror.
It’s a gun culture… so they’ve become used to such violence.
Hopefully NOT towards a CIVIL WAR!
Excellent interview as always, thanks Mitch!
8 Million Algerians killed during the 19th Century invasion / Histoire d'un Parjure, Michel Habart.
Similar to what English speaking blacks believe the education in those days were taught very much were taught in the diaspora negritude (Dutch speaking etc)sad😢
Think of Puerto Rico and you will understand the relationship between Martinique and France.
Colonialism is the extension of Corporatism/ David Riccardo.
some go to veterans hospital spanish type preferred. confidential. they know them. need to go now. some strange apnings by some others, in chicago, los Angeels ca, COlumbus Ohio cincinatti, New York , Arizona, seattle or other.
Aren't we not all in that space of not knowing your island/country's history?
West Indians are of African descent wherever they are, no more conquer and divide, even in academics.......dlc
But Martinique has never been granted freedom from France! Up to now it is a Overseas Department of France.
He was African period
No he was NOT , having black ancestry and being African are two different things and I speak from experience.
African doesn’t even rate West Indians as being “ Africans “, just waits until they start speaking their languages , practicing their culture and customs.
West Indians may bridge the world of the Europeans and Africans but doesn’t really fit into or truly accepted by both. That’s my take on it , and I'm not changing it .
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Thanks for this. I can safely say the majority of the diaspora haven’t heard of him.
Which diaspora? The Caribbean diaspora or Black diaspora. I'm from The USA and I've known of him for decades.
I am South African and learned about Frantz Fanon during our liberation struggle as far back as the ‘70s, spent 18 years in the US, where I was exposed to revolutionaries from countless nations around the world at the UN, who all professed to have studied Fanon. So, while he was extremely well-known in the African Diaspora, he was also studied as far afield as Southeast Asia, West Asia, South America and the Caribbean, as well as in Europe. I am only surprised by how our younger generations do not know of Frantz Fanon, meaning we did not do a good job of keeping him top of mind in our generational knowledge transfer.
@@DMx4839 I wish I did, I was only aware of Kume Ture, and Mohammed Ali.
Komment on his work than on his birth place!
NWA…
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Listen west indie is Afrikans look at his features Afrikans r the people of the earth the first!!!!
How gutsy.
@@blackhibiscus1876 but truth
I am SOOO ashamed....at 69, I DID NOT KNOW Franz Fanon was African American.
He's not African American. He is Afro Caribbean, specifically from Martinique. Fanon never lived in America.
Someone employed at London Review who isn't a genocidal nutcase? Is there something special about the London Review of Books?
"..Frantz Fanon was a West Indian. He was often misunderstood, and thought to be an Algerian, or an AFRICAN..."!
Hang on, I always thought Algeria was in Africa - a part of the African Continent! Was I mislead?!
Yeah, there are still levels to how we create these distances from who and what we really are either in our own heads or by those who study us after the fact. Of course he’s African. An African that came through the experiences of the Caribbean (West Indies). And of course Algeria is in Africa and has MANY Africans, although Algeria/n is often used to refer to BY DEAULT to the Arab types (only) that also live there. Yeah, there’s levels to this…
@ 2:10 Frantz Fanon was a pan Africanist, yet you claim that he wasn’t an African. How can this be true?
Cognitive Dissonance.
I'm a pan-Africanist and I'm not African.
@@numbersix8919 how can you be a pan African and not be of African descent?
@@ynotlearn4190 By being an ally. Are you for real?
He was not a continental African but a Caribbean diaspora African
Its okay for the speaker to say nigrattude
Négritude is not an "n" word. Anyone can use it.
This is very interesting but somewhat frustrating. It says something that the CIA thought they could work with the FLN.
If Fanon "opposed US imperialism" (what did that mean?), what was his view on Lenin’s assessment of imperialism?
Did he reject the Marxist assessment that the division of society into social classes was primary? Or did he think race was primary?
I have read that his mentor described as follows: “Francois Tosquelles was a militant anti-Stalinist who had been a senior member of the far-left POUM in the Spanish Civil War. He was a central intellectual figure in Fanon’s life, and his only mentor.”
So what did Fanon think of Trotsky and the Left Opposition struggle against Stalinism?
What did Fanon think of the role of the Stalinist French Communist Party (PCF) in suppressing the French working class after WWII?
What did Fanon think about the Russian Revolution and class politics?
Does the author think Fanon would have approved of the use of his work?
In respect to Fanon's perspective on the primacy of class over race in revolutionary struggle, I'd be willing to bet he supported the FLN's rejection of Algerian communists after those same communists failed to support ACTUAL revolutionary action in the colonies: laughably claiming a proletarian revolution had to occur in France first? For reasons lolz..
The simplistic, and frankly patronizing, reductionist tendencies in (mainly white) socialist/communist ideology probably had no more appeal to Fanon than it has, or has ever had, to black and brown people in it's brief history.
@@pierrechildress8875 I have searched separately for an answer to my questions without success so far.
Fanon would have been correct to reject the PCF line because they weren’t fighting for communism. There was nothing laughable about Stalinism. It served the material interests of the bureaucracy which had usurped power after the death of Lenin in January 1924.
But what was Fanon’s alternative? What Fanon seems to have shared in common with the Stalinists (and with Gramsci) is that the nation-state system was primary.
“Decolonisation” means to try remove the direct control of the imperialist powers by having “independent” nation-states. But just as the world economy was more
powerful than the Stalinist bureaucracy, imperialism means national independence is a myth.
Stalinism betrayed the Chinese revolution of 1925-27 by insisting the CCP remain subordinated to the KMT and after 1933 it was counter-revolutionary.
WATCH
70 years after the Chinese Revolution: How the struggle for socialism was betrayed
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@johnwilsonwsws Your anticommunism has no place in a discussing Fanon. All struggles against imperialism are revolutionary and progressive. Fanon's work on the psychpathologies of racism is meant to expose and overcome false consciousness, to liberate the mind and body from internalized racism.
@@numbersix8919 lolz. I'm not antii-communist. I'm anti-fake azz revolutionaries who can't chew bubblegum and walk at the same time. I'm figuring Fanon was as well, since he actually went somewhere and participated.
@@pierrechildress8875 You don't get to set standards for your archenemy.
Im tired utube. Every time truth is told about the black struggle shut it down
FF is foney
I would had listened to your piece if you actually cared to pronounce his name correctly... This is terribly unfortunate.
The bald dude needs to talk less and answer questions better. This isn't an interview nor is it even a discussion, it's a monologue. I guess it's the interviewer's fault for failing to take control of the show. Sadly, this "monologue" has made the fascinating life and philosophy of Franz Fanon boring.
He worked with my mother at the Blida Hospital.