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re ee In Wo: luupen--5 without taking the masses into consideration, the lumpen-proletariat will thrae - dtself into the battle and will take part in the conflict--but this time on the side of the oppressor, And the oppressor, who never joses a chance of setting the niggers against each other, will be extremely skilifu mn using that ignorance and incomprel2asion which are the weaknesses of the lumpen-proletariat. available reserve of human effort is not immediately organized by the forces of rebellion, it will find freelf fighting as hired soldiers side by side with the colonial troops, (p, 109) Wheat makes all this particularly dangerous is that it may occur after the lumpen- proletariat has fcught. on the side of the revolution, and may therefore take the ; revoluticuary forces completely by surprise, Fanon points out that the enemy relies ee oudes fel agatyada te take advantage of any such opportunity: The enemy is aware of ideolopical weaknesses, for he analyses the forces of re- belliton and studies more and rere carefully the aggregate enemy which makes up a colonial people; he is alse aware of the spiritual instability of certain layers of the noniulattian rr i a a ee an eaten ber ofAden ott!h ehea dieu ve ee pe ypuse LOT , £ne cutioy OLsceovers Tne E€xisrence, SiGe wy Shue Weer tire was ciplined and well-organised advance guard of rebellion, a mass of men whose parti- cination is constantly at the mercy of their being for too long accustoued to physiological vretchedness, humiliation and irresponsibility, (pp. 109-110) ‘urely {t is not difficult to jmtgine a similar situation here, and we shcyld be arned of the necessity of raising the consciousness of all those whe join the struggle, The Black Pantters! political cducation courses, based on intensive study of Nao and ‘(ress.ng an appiication to pecple's immediate experience, here serves as a wodei, ‘any of their early recruits ajthoudh unaceustaneod to readine and used to an firespoh- AMAL S, OF Letraset eo a Oe oe Bs 5 ieee , ible, criminal life, learned how to serve the people with complete dedication, ) foes + : ‘ : -o other parts of Fanon's analysis are of even more immediate and strategic invortance , be first is the theory of the Iurpenproletariat as the way the countryside enters the ity. "The rebellion, which besaa in the country districts, will filter into the towns hrough that fraction of the peasant pepulation ,,, which bas not yet succeeded in findic bone to gnaw in the colonial aygien," "To is within this mass of humanity, this cople cf the shanty tewnn, at the core of the lyvppen-proletariat that the rebellion 11 find its urban spearhead." {p, 13) How does this apply to the U.S.? It is asy enough to see the unerpleved people of the Black ghettoes as part of this mass of wantty, But where is the rebellion that began in the country districts? The ausver, £ course, is in the worla revclution as described by Lin Piao in Long Live the Victory { People’s War) The country districts of the world are Asia, Africa, and Latin America, smelands of the wretchedi of the carth, There are variovs groups of people in the nited States who snare the flysical misery of these rural masses--Anerican Indians, icano farm laborers, Black tenant farmers in the South, the dispossessed whites of vpalachia, But mest of these groups are scattcred and weak, living oa the fringes { capitalist socten, uiiy from its vital centres, There is only one greup that not ‘ly Shives the dopradation of the world's revolutionary masses but is sufficiently meent cated to be powarful--the urban lumpenprolctariat, This class ia American society laryely made up of ‘hard World people, but also includes whites dispossessed From ve Landes drepeed ait of their class, This last is no Inconside-*ble group, and ic is taken over arcas of several important cities, from the Haight-asubury and velegraph verne threuch tadison to the Lower East Side, Cambridg.2, and Georgetown, Wherever the ‘wpenprotetarsat lives in Anerica, “lav and order" arc rapidly disintegrating, luper- ‘Lfsm, esught in its own contredictions, finds it incteasinzly difficult to develop fective waspens to use within its own diseased vital organs, its cities, Here stirs ge Lumpeaproletariat, the one class vhose physica} existence approximates thet of the (tm Farrac Af thea wane tA we ee teat 4 1 2 os 1 If this aoe a Se “A yates why ty LNG ee ek Qpheite gpg el Th yy TET gla t dia M ne? tng Let Cay 3 gg Ea ne PAN, Gate - oe