Welcome again to one of my “time-out” days when I promise – or attempt – to be most brief. And please find it possible to forgive my repetitive lamentation – waffle? – inherent in my lead issue today – I think it’s the Fanon expression which he might have inherited. Whose disastrous lifelong “privilege” has it been to be deemed the wretched of the earth? This world and this planet?
I do not hear about it a lot, so I can only suspect that there might be poor, economically-challenged and struggling working-class members of societies such as, say, Sweden, Germany, Israel, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Iceland, Finland, South Korea and Panama.
I have no challenge in recognising instances of stark poverty, need and suppression in scores of African, Asian and Latin American States and societies. Yes people of colour, for numerous, varied reasons seem to be the chosen victims aptly described as the “wretched of this earth”.
This unequal world needs water and wood. Most societies seem characterized by classes. Class develops and is structured according to how