Discourse on Colonialism
Discourse on Colonialism
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殖民主义话语
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2014
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J. Pinkham
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A. Césaire;J. Pinkham
一个文明如果无法解决自己制造的问题，那它就是一个颓废的文明。一个选择对其最关键的问题视而不见的文明是一个受灾的文明。一个把自己的原则用于欺骗和欺骗的文明是一个垂死的文明。事实是，所谓的欧洲文明——被两个世纪的资产阶级统治所塑造的“西方”文明，无法解决它的存在所产生的两个主要问题：无产阶级问题和殖民问题；欧洲无法在“理性”或“良心”的考验面前为自己辩护；而且，它越来越多地在虚伪中寻求庇护，这种虚伪越来越可恶，因为它越来越不可能欺骗。欧洲站不住脚。显然，这就是美国战略家们互相窃窃私语的内容。这本身并不严重。严重的是，“欧洲”在道德上和精神上都站不住脚。今天，对它的控诉不仅来自欧洲人民，而且来自世界范围，来自千千万万的人，他们从奴隶制的深处，自封为法官。殖民主义者可能在印度支那杀人，在马达加斯加折磨，在黑非洲监禁，在西印度群岛镇压。从此以后，被殖民者知道他们比他们有优势。他们知道他们的临时“主人”在撒谎。所以他们的主人是软弱的。既然我被要求谈论殖民和文明，那么让我们直接进入主要的谎言，它是所有其他谎言的来源。殖民和文明？
A civilization that proves incapable of solving the problems it creates is a decadent civilization. A civilization that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a stricken civilization. A civilization that uses its principles for trickery and deceit is a dying civilization. The fact is that the so-called European civilization – "Western" civilization as it has been shaped by two centuries of bourgeois rule, is incapable of solving the two major problems to which its existence has given rise: the problem of the proletariat and the colonial problem; that Europe is unable to justify itself either before the bar of "reason" or before the bar of "conscience"; and that, increasingly, it takes refuge in a hypocrisy which is all the more odious because it is less and less likely to deceive. Europe is indefensible. Apparently that is what the American strategists are whispering to each other. That in itself is not serious. What is serious is that "Europe" is morally, spiritually indefensible. And today the indictment is brought against it not by the European masses alone, but on a world scale, by tens and tens of millions of men who, from the depths of slavery, set themselves up as judges. The colonialists may kill in Indochina, torture in Madagascar, imprison in Black Africa, crackdown in the West Indies. Henceforth, the colonized know that they have an advantage over them. They know that their temporary, "masters" are lying. Therefore, that their masters are weak. And since I have been asked to speak about colonization and civilization, let us go straight to the principal lie which is the source of all the others. Colonization and civilization?