Venezuelan Socialist and writer Simón Rodríguez Porras, author of "Why did Chavismo fail?" and editor at Venezuelanvoices.org, reminds us in The New Arab of these words from Césaire...
The Martinican thinker Aimé Césaire in his seminal book Discourse on colonialism, written in 1950, had the penetrating insight that fascism had roots in the very history of European colonialism and imperialism.
About the European and Christian bourgeois man of his time, he affirmed that:
"What he cannot forgive Hitler for is not the crime in itself, the crime against man, it is not the humiliation of man as such, it is the crime against the white man, the humiliation of the white man, and the fact that he applied to Europe colonialist procedures which until then had been reserved exclusively for the Arabs of Algeria, the coolies of India, and the niggers of Africa".
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