For more radical anticolonialists of the period, individualistic languages of dignity and liberty were the means by which neocolonialists distracted the people of the colonies from what the Martiniquan psychiatrist and anticolonialist Frantz Fanon called their basic requirements: ‘bread, clothing, shelter’. Fanon’s ‘stretched Marxism’ foregrounded race as the basis for settlers’ entitlement to ‘the material benefits of colonial capitalism’.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 288