Embargoed medications took on revolutionary weapon-value for the colonized
Evidence
Now all these things that could not be found, that were held by the adversary, withdrawn from circulation, were to take on a new value. These medications which were taken for granted before the struggle for liberation, were transformed into weapons. And the urban revolutionary cells having the responsibility for supplying medications were as important as those assigned to obtain information as to the plans and movements of the adversary. Even as the Algerian tradesman discovered ways of supplying the people with radios, so the Algerian pharmacist, the Algerian nurse, the Algerian doctor multiplied their efforts to make antibiotics and dressings available to the wounded at all times. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 449
Categorization
- SEED: Angle for an essay: how scarcity under embargo transforms everyday goods into political instruments of resistance.
- XREF: connects to: Colonized peoples reject foreign medicine as an instrument of exploitation; Colonial medical techniques were rejected until the revolution reappropriated them; French authorities weaponized the medical supply chain against the revolution (+4 more)
Related
- Colonial authorities embargoed medical supplies to deny Algerians self-treatment during the revolution (similarity 0.87)
- French authorities weaponized the medical supply chain against the revolution (similarity 0.86)
- Colonized peoples reject foreign medicine as an instrument of exploitation (similarity 0.82)
- Colonized peoples read colonial vaccination as a tool of subjugation (similarity 0.81)
- The colonial situation forces colonized people to reject even beneficial medicine categorically. (similarity 0.81)
- Colonial medical techniques were rejected until the revolution reappropriated them (similarity 0.81)