Fascism, defining itself in Germany as Ostkolonisation, in other words the institution of a colonial situation on the European continent that claims to s ubvert existing socio-political groups , in fact reveals to us the great two-way movement of dromocratic totalitarianism between metropoles and colonies. Mapped out during the unprecedented logistical efort of die First World War, this movement will bring about the singular unity of Western civilization in the 1 920s, "the incorporation of colonial action in national life as a solution to the · serious problems that human evolution will later impose on the world," as Albert Sarraut, French colonial minister, declared in 1 92 1 .
To understand dromocratic society and its establishment, it is no doubt more useful to read The Black Code of the Colonial Pact than any other so-called sociological work. "We must not, " wrote Colbert, "constitute in the colonies a constant civilization . " The ancient legislation that will subsist in our colonies until 1 84 8 considers the negro to be forniture; 1 the black slave is first of all a movable commodity. His legal existence is solely a function of his movable/furniture quality, of the transportation he is subjected to. The vogue of Black American jazz after 1 9 1 4, the frenzied gesticulation revealed by the first American sound film that colored the face of a white actor and bent him to the rhythm of the movable slave, reminds us of that country's dominant culture today, and of James Baldwin's profound reflection: "Tomorrow you will all be negroes!"
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