Abstract
This paper will explore major sections of Fanon's path breaking work, The Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove Press, 2005 Reprint). The goal is to bring them into dialogue with various debates in development ethics and global justice today, for example the viability of substantive and processual agency and capabilities pioneered by Sen (Oxford: Oxford University Press,1999) and others, in postcolonial, Global South development contexts. To what extent is a total reimagination of society required so that the neoliberal capitalist democratic model of Western Europe and the U.S. does not become the only model possible for all societies? How can various forms of indigenous thought be brought into dialogue with twenty-first century thought, particularly key ideas from Marx's Capital Vol 1. on the 'commodity fetish, surplus labor-value, and the primitive accumulation' (New York, Penguin, 1982), to imagine alternative possibilities to today's coercive and extractive market capitalism. This paper suggests that we need to pick up where Fanon's great work concludes on imagining a new society beyond the brief history of post-WWII Western models of development as purely economic and technical in nature. It seeks to elaborate philosophical concepts of trust and solidarity in collectivist and egalitarian models of shared goods and resources in mutually beneficial forms of exchange for all members of society.