In the same vein as many contemporary and later African socialists, Fanon saw a uniquely African situation that required a rethinking of orthodox Marxist analysis.
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Revolution, Not Reform
Political power must be re-created from the earth, from the mass organisations and it must find political expression only in representation of the interests of its mass organisations and in contradiction to the interests of the capitalist class — not in compromise.
Street Fighting by James Connolly
This is one of a series of articles written by the Irish Marxist, James Connolly, in the newspaper Workers’ Republic during May-July 1915. The articles analyzed insurrections in cities from 1830 to 1905, concluding that the Russian experience in 1905 “succeeded in establishing the fact that even under modern conditions the professional soldier is, in…