The alliance of the native intellectual with the underclass. In Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth, he sees the native intellectual as aggressively commanding, nonviolent, a modern and strategic voice. “The indigenous intellectual clothed his aggression with a thinly veiled desire to assimilate into the colonial world. He used his aggression to serve his own individual interests” (60). Here Fanon emphasizes the native intellectual's aggression for power. He hid his initial plan to eliminate the settler and assume his position of authority, assimilating to his beliefs. These revolve around the idea of a colonial world. This world is characterized by a division of shares without honorable titles where you can only take the position of one. His individual interests are to manage society with different points of view than the European ones with which the settler arrived. His mad plan is seen as aggressive because he disguises himself as the settler's accomplice while planning how to remove him from the land that has his governing status. The native intellectual's plan to govern society is based on ideas of individuality, which colonization destroys. . Colonization forces people to conform to ideas of separation, limitation, and social “norm.” “What the intellectual demands is the right to multiply the emancipated and the possibility of organizing a true class of emancipated citizens” (60). Today there are many boundaries that separate the different social classes. There is the rich bourgeoisie, the working middle class, the native intellectuals and the poor underclass. The native intellectual refuses to let these boundaries continue through the transformation of a colonial world. Ins...... middle of paper ......s people on the front lines of the war is a very strategic move by the native intellectuals because it increases the chances of getting rid of the foreigner and the majority of the lumpenproletariat. They are fighting for independence from the colonists in the French Algerian War because Algeria, home of the indigenous intellectuals and underclass, refused to let their homeland become another French-ruled Europe. They are considered hardy workers because the underclass is known to live up to their name and do things that shouldn't be done to survive. At this point in the war, they are considered brave for fighting and working because for most fighting in war is an extremely difficult task. In exchange for their participation in the war, they will not completely reform but will be able to improve their lives and live with pride in their nation.
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