Quoting from Aimé Césaire’s “Discourse on Colonialism” (1950) (as translated by Joan Pinkham):
The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.
In 1913, Ambassador Page wrote to Wilson:
“The future of the world belongs to us …. Now what are we going to do with the leadership of the world presently when it clearly falls into our hands?”
And in 1914: “What are we going to do with this England and this Empire, presently, when economic forces unmistakably put the leadership of the race in our hands?”
This Empire … And the others …
And indeed, do you not see how ostentatiously these gentlemen have just unfurled the banner of anti-colonialism?
“Aid to the disinherited countries,” says Truman. “The time of the old colonialism has passed.” That’s also Truman.
Which means that American high finance considers that the time has come to raid every colony in the world. So, dear friends, here you have to be careful!