On this day in 1961 the psychiatrist, revolutionary and political writer, Frantz Fanon died of cancer, at thirty-six. Fanon was from Martinique, but his militant Marxism was schooled in France and field-tested in Algeria, where he became a leading psychiatrist and an advocate of liberation by violence. This approach to Algeria received support from Sartre, as much as Albert Camus's refusal to become involved in his homeland's problems received Sartre's contempt. ... FULL STORY »
