Resisting the middle-class death of closed society makes one a revolutionary

Evidence

In this connection, I should like to say something that I have found in many other writers: Intellectual alienation is a creation of middle-class society. What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how educated colonials internalize and possibly break the closed European narrative. — connects to: Intellectual alienation is a creation of a rigidified, closed middle-class society.; Intellectual alienation arises from rigidified middle-class closed societies — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821; Capitalism reproduces itself by drawing civil and cultural life into conformity with its needs (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism reproduces itself by drawing civil and cultural life into conformity with its needs #expands (0.65)
• Intellectual alienation arises from rigidified middle-class closed societies #expands (0.60) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 821