Fanon writes in *The Wretched of the Earth*: 'In the colonies the economic substructure is also a superstructure. The cause is the consequence, you are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich. This is why Marxist analysis should always be slightly stretched every time we have to do with the colonial problem...Everything up to and including the very nature of pre-capitalist society, so well explained by Marx, must here be thought out again.' (Grove Press, p. 40)
much like the 'young' Marx, the 'young' Fanon was concerned with freedom...he recognized that the establishment of a 'free state' did not mean that humans were free (similar to M in *On the Jewish Question*)...Fanon's thought, like that of Marx, proceeded from humanism to sociology - dealienation (*Black Skin, White Masks*), freedom (*Studies in a Dying Colonialism*), socialist revolutionary (*The Wretched of the Earth*)...F adapted M's theory to the colonial system for which he drew parallels to M's conception of social classes. ..like Marx, he advocated a socio-political revolution, not only a political one and he adopted M's concept of praxis to his own vision of change...retaining an element of the utopian in his thinking, Fanon recommended a society with Marxian economic organization and Rousseauian political organization (absent R's distrust of the people, F assigns no legislator over them)...Michael Hoover