Quote by Frantz Fanon

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in predetermined forms, forbidding all evolution, all gains, all progress, all discovery. I call middle-class a closed society in which life has no taste, in which the air is tainted, in which ideas and men are corrupt. And I think that a man who takes a stand against this death is in a sense a revolutionary.

What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes

Summary

This quote suggests that the speaker defines a middle-class society as one that resists change and stifles progress and innovation. They describe it as a closed and stagnant society, lacking excitement and vitality. They argue that individuals who challenge this state of affairs are in fact revolutionaries as they are actively opposing the stagnation and seeking to bring about positive transformation. This quote highlights the belief that resisting the status quo and promoting change is necessary to prevent societal decay and corruption.

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By Frantz Fanon

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