Content warning Content warning from the foreword by j.p. sartre, i.e. french white guy talking about colonialism
First, we must face that unexpected revelation, the strip-tease of our humanism. There you can see it, quite naked, and it is not a pretty sight. It was nothing but an ideology of lies, a perfect justification of pillage; its honeyed words, its affectation of sensibility were only alibis for our aggressions. A fine sight they are too, the believers in non-violence, saying that they are neither executioners nor victims. Very well then; if you're not victims when the government which you've voted for, when the army in which your younger brothers are serving without hesitation or remorse have undertaken race murder, you are, without a shadow of a doubt, executioners. And if you choose to be victims and to risk being put in prison for a day or two, you are simply choosing to pull your irons out of the fire. But you will not be able to pull them out; they'll have to stay there till the end