Was reflecting on the vapidity of the #RRR critiques and came across this passage from Fanon. RRR is absolutely a nationalist movie, but the idea that it is "hindutva" aligned b/c of its use of hindu imagery is itself a symptom of the alienation Fanon describes
Urban writers like @kookykarthik display an aggressive ignorance about their own countries, which Fanon explains as "the incapacity of the national bourgeoisie in underdeveloped countries to rationalize popular praxis"
What is the duty of the bourgeoisie in an underdeveloped country? For Fanon, it's βto betray the vocation to which it is destined, to learn from the people, and make available to them the intellectual and technical capital it culled from its time in colonial universities.β
But all too often this duty is eschewed in favor of working as "small-time racketeer[s]" who totally lack βthe dynamic, pioneering aspect, the inventive, discoverer-of-new-worlds aspect" that characterized the western bourgeoisie
Because the bourgeoisie of the underdeveloped post-colonial country "identifies with the Western bourgeoisie from which it has slurped every lesson," they're only capable of a gross sort of mimicry. Naipaul made the same observation.
Fanon continues: βIt mimics the Western bourgeoisie in its negative and decadent aspects without having accomplished the initial phases of exploration and invention that are the assets of this Western bourgeoisie whatever the circumstances.β
Another astute observation: βIn its early days the national bourgeoisie of the colonial countries identifies with the last stages of the Western bourgeoisie. Don't believe it is taking short cuts. In fact it starts at the end.β
And the. mic drop: βIt is already senile, having experienced neither the exuberance nor the brazen determination of youth and adolescence.β
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