> I'll give the last word to Brother Fanon:
>
> Such a colonized intellectual, dusted over by colonial culture, will in
> the same way discover the substance of village assemblies,
> the cohesion of people's committees, and the extraordinary
> fruitfulness of local meetings and groupments. Henceforward,
> the interests of one will be the interests of all, for in concrete
> fact everyone will be discovered by the troops, everyone will
> be massacred — or everyone will be saved.
Fanon did outstanding work, but his model of intellectual commitment amidst wartime solidarity has some internal contradictions -- most notably, its militarized masculinity. As an exile from colonial-era Martinique in occupied Algeria, he had limited insight into Algeria's anti-colonial mobilizations, into its strengths and also its limitations. It could be that the Arab Spring is the long-delayed answer to those contradictions -- a rebellion against the corrupt postcolonial elites which cloaked their neocolonial thievery for decades, by dressing themselves in the garb of national liberators.
-- DRR