Inner transformation precedes and drives national sovereignty

Evidence

It is true that independence produces the spiritual and material conditions for the reconversion of man. But it is also the inner mutation, the renewal of the social and family structures that impose with the rigor of a law the emergence of the Nation and the growth of its sovereignty. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 618

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 618
  • XREF: connects to: Inner psychological mutation, not independence, is what generates national sovereignty; Colonized man undergoes inner transformation in rejecting oppression; Colonial domination is undone first in the colonized subject’s inner life — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 178 (+12 more)

Broader Connections