The White West: Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity
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Tracing the relation between fascism and settler colonialism.
In the aftermath of World War II, the recently liberated nations in Europe were swift to resume colonial oppression abroad. On May 8, 1945, the day victory was celebrated by the Allies, the French police massacred hundreds of townspeople in Sétif, leading the French editor Claude Bourdet to ask, “Are we the Gestapo in Algeria?”
In Europe, what is called “fascism,” poet Aimé Césaire argued in his famous essay “Discourse on Coloniali...


