Aimé Césaire · 1950
Discourse on Colonialism
- Original title
- Discours sur le colonialisme
- Language
- French
- Form
- Essay
- Text
- In copyright
- English
- No English translation · English translation by Joan Pinkham (1972), not public domain.
- Selected
- Ben Breen, 2026-09-29; suggested by Claude research agents, 29 Sep 2026
- Status
- Arguments unverified; quotations chosen by machine, unchecked
Q34CIVILIZATION
Does superiority in industrial or military technology justify one people governing another?No. Colonizers' claims of roads, railways and material progress do not justify colonial rule; the Congo-Ocean railway cost lives, and no one knows what these countries would have built without Europe.
Wikipedia (English and French) entries; auction and bookseller records of the first edition, Paris: Réclame, 1950.