Fanon saw individualistic human-rights language as a neocolonial distraction from material wants

Evidence

For more radical anticolonialists of the period, individualistic languages of dignity and liberty were the means by which neocolonialists distracted the people of the colonies from what the Martiniquan psychiatrist and anticolonialist Frantz Fanon called their basic requirements: ‘bread, clothing, shelter’. Fanon’s ‘stretched Marxism’ foregrounded race as the basis for settlers’ entitlement to ‘the material benefits of colonial capitalism’. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 288

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Fanon’s ‘stretched Marxism’ — Marxism extended by race — a useful precise term for the reader’s analysis.
• XREF: Fanon’s critique parallels the reader’s interest in how humanitarian/rights discourse can displace material redistribution — sits alongside the sacrifice and market-ethics debate sources. — connects to: Human rights language was mobilized against demands for postcolonial economic redistribution. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 379; Amnesty’s individualist human rights differed sharply from anti-colonial UN economic self-determination — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 351; Human rights discourse flourished alongside welfare-state retrenchment and anti-revolutionary politics — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 8

Broader Connections

• Amnesty’s individualist human rights differed sharply from anti-colonial UN economic self-determination #corroborates (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 351
• Human rights language was mobilized against demands for postcolonial economic redistribution. #corroborates (0.82) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 379
• Human rights discourse flourished alongside welfare-state retrenchment and anti-revolutionary politics #corroborates (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 8