boof-chamber on Nostr: The most acute form of mental illness is without a doubt found in the nations ...

The most acute form of mental illness is without a doubt found in the nations oppressed by colonial or neo-colonial imperialism. This is to be expected in the current stage of capitalism, in which the people of the oppressed nations are those who experience the most severe forms of capitalist exploitation. Black, Marxist, psychoanalyst Frantz Fanon described the mental illness that appears in colonized peoples (today those would include the Palestinians, the First Nations, Puerto Ricans, New Afrikans etc.) in his book The Wretched of the Earth. One example he gives of colonists producing mental illness in the colonized is the following: