Fifty years is the long time to think about a thinker's relevance or to think of the relevance of their work to… — Nigel Gibson Contemporary Copy Share Image
Many of the democratization projects are a real threat to real democracy. — Nigel Gibson Democracy Copy Share Image
Counter-violence against the colonial regime is liberatory because it is an act, and by acting, the absolute power of colonialism, internalized by… — Nigel Gibson Absolute power Copy Share Image
There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and… — Nigel Gibson Arcs Copy Share Image
What is interesting about the revolts is that they show that there is never anything purely spontaneous, and there is always some… — Nigel Gibson Discussion Copy Share Image
The military defeat of an oppressive regime is important, but it does not answer our problems. It is where our problems begin,… — Nigel Gibson Answers Copy Share Image
Spaces of liberation are, in a certain way, some kind of social spaces where people can not only get together and think… — Nigel Gibson Acting Copy Share Image
The only way that we can prove the relevance of Fanon in a certain way outside of some academic circles is to… — Nigel Gibson Academic Copy Share Image
If you look at social movements in Latin America, there are spaces where alternative politics are thought about on the ground, at… — Nigel Gibson Alternatives Copy Share Image
The colonial regime makes sure, often with the help of surrogates, that radical leaders and those honest principled intellectuals and activists who… — Nigel Gibson Activist Copy Share Image
For Fanon, becoming actional is connected to his idea of a new humanism, which is explicitly critical of European humanism so intimately… — Nigel Gibson Becoming Copy Share Image
Violence is used to suppress a people in a most blatantly crude way. We can historicize and contextualize it. We can analyze… — Nigel Gibson Crude Copy Share Image
Organization has to come from an agreement about principles, rather than just the need to coordinate: so as much as we must… — Nigel Gibson Agreement Copy Share Image
The Syrian people do not recognize themselves in the elite politics of the Muslim Brotherhood or the left, each of which is… — Nigel Gibson Activity Copy Share Image
Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought. — Nigel Gibson Development Copy Share Image
The colonial power tended to be France or Britain, and the Soviets were proclaimed as anti-imperialists. So, if you align yourself with… — Nigel Gibson Britain Copy Share Image
The grand schemes of liberation, however indistinct and amorphous, can quickly be compromised, consumed by petty disputes and local hatreds. — Nigel Gibson Consumed Copy Share Image
Violence is the first means and the last resort to pacify a people, and thus is something we need to continue to… — Nigel Gibson Firsts Copy Share Image
The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one's mind to what are… — Nigel Gibson Mind Copy Share Image
The problem in Syria, I think, is that when there is so much violence, there is not only very little chance to… — Nigel Gibson Bombarded Copy Share Image
Fanon calls his ideology a new humanism, not only in contrast to the elite humanism of the West, but also on the… — Nigel Gibson Axioms Copy Share Image
Political change does not really lead to any fundamental change for most of the people, indeed because politics (even if it calls… — Nigel Gibson Change Copy Share Image
