Mass resistance develops in unconscious depths before surfacing suddenly
Evidence
It is on this deep level that the future—which will later on seem to burst suddenly and without warning into bloom—is being prepared. The same thing happens in the United States. Resistance to the war in Vietnam, however weak it may seem in comparison with the apparent omnipotence of the imperialist apparatus, must be understood as a highly important symptom of what is gestating in the still unconscious depths of broad segments of the population. The United States is not isolated by any cordon sanitaire from the revolution which is engulfing mankind, and each aggressive step that its government takes along the road of counter-revolution inevitably awakens opposing forces within the country. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 41
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Fanon’s account of Algerian mass inner life and resistance as precursor to the book’s later chapters on colonized society. — connects to: Resistance centers form in response to occupier plans but can exceed them; A displaced group’s collective unconscious changes within a century; Established organic forces consistently absorb spontaneous mass movements