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Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire, published in 1950, critiques European colonialism and its moral hypocrisy by identifying the proletariat as colonized laborers and the bourgeois as European elites who endorse and perpetuate colonial violence. Césaire argues that these elites mask their complicity through intellectual rhetoric, tracing colonial violence and predicting the rise of the U.S. as a new oppressive power, ultimately calling for the oppressed to revolt.