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“A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization.”
Source: Discours sur le colonialisme (Paris: Réclame, 1950), opening sentence; English trans. Joan Pinkham (Monthly Review Press, 1972)
Context Opening a pamphlet written five years after the Second World War, he charged that Europe could answer neither the colonial question nor the problem of the working class it had created.
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