Césaire holds that only the proletariat carries a universal historical mission

Evidence

Which comes down to saying that the salvation of Europe is not a matter of a revolution in methods. It is a matter of the Revolution - the one which, until such time as there is a classless society, will substitute for the narrow tyranny of a dehumanized bourgeoisie the preponderance of the only class that still has a universal mission, because it suffers in its flesh from all the wrongs of history, from all the universal wrongs: the proletariat. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 268

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the proletariat as the class with a ‘universal mission’ because it embodies all historical wrongs — a core scaffold concept.
• XREF: Connects to Marx’s proletariat as universal class and anticipates later Islamophobia readings on who gets to speak for the oppressed.