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62 THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTHgovernments. This colossal task, which consists of reintroducingman into the world, man in his totality, will be achieved withcrucial help of the European masses who would do well toconfess that they have often rallied behind the position of ourcommon masters on colonial issues. In order to do this. theEuropean masses must first of all decide to wake up, put onthinking caps and stop playing the irresponsible game of SleepingBeauty.Grandeur and Weaknessof SpontaneityThese reflections on violence have made us realize the frequentdiscrepancy between the cadres of the nationalist party and themasses, and the way they are out of step with each other. In anyunion or political organization there is a traditional !lao betweenthe masses who demand anment of their situation, and the cadres who, gaugingculties likely to be created by employers, put a restraint on theirdemands. Hence the oft-remarked tenacious discontent of themasses with regard to the cadres. Mer a day of demonstrations,while the cadres are celebrating victory, the masses well and trulyget the feeling they have been betrayed. It is the repeated demonstrationsfor their rights and the repeated labor disputes thatpoliticize the masses. A politically informed union official issomeone who knows that a local dispute is not a crucial confrontationbetween him and management. The colonized intellectuals,who in their respective metropolises have studiedthe mechanism of political parties, establish similar organizationsso as to mobilize the masses and put pressure on the colonialadministration. The formation of nationalist parties in the colonizedcountries is contemporary with the birth of an intellectualand businessthe organization as such, and63