Exterminate All the Brutes

In this short book I am not trying to explain the current situation of massacres, racial discrimination, imperialism or Africa.

It is very beautifully written. In a sense, it is a travel diary depicting the slow travel of Lindqvist in the Sahara. This is the least developed part of the story, but it provides easy relief for other materials. More importantly, Lindqvist dismantled Joseph Conrad's "The Heart of Darkness" from European iconic novels. Lindqvist developed Conrad's work in a relaxed atmosphere as a background of the European development of African thought in the 1890s.

Essentially, the extended paper of Lindqvist is the history of European genocide colonial instinct. He believes that the Hitler massacre is not a disorder in European history but a reasonable extension of British policy in Sudan, Congo Belgium, and Mali France. The only difference with Hitler is that he is pursuing colonial expansion within the scope of Europe (crime against human nature), not overseas (expansion of civilization).

Lindqvist depicts that European imperialists captured Charles Darwin's new theory and defended the genocide for pseudoscientic reasons. Some Germans were not originally imperialists, and how it might have produced the most obvious opponents of colonialism. Later, when Bismarck was funded by the industrial power of Germany and trying to establish Germany's own empire, the popular German scientific philosophy became increasingly racism - the foundation of Hitler .

Since Lindqvist published the book, the Cambodian and Rwandan Holocaust have been claimed to have destroyed his argument. I do not like this. It is not difficult to say that the massacres of Cambodia and Rwanda are, at least in part, responses to European and American policies. Even if you choose not to accept this statement, we will not deny that the basic discussion of Lindqvist still exists. Europeans in Africa (and other areas including Australia) brought racial discrimination and gun civilization. Everything else is not important

He wrote that Linddevist was first published in the Swedish favorite book, probably the best book, "annihilation of annihilation": "Germany has become the only scapegoat for extinction, The idea of ​​respiration when all other Westerners were children was saturated with the belief that imperialism is a biologically necessary process and according to the law of nature necessarily brings about the race of low race Belief that millions of lives were spent before Hitler offered to him. Individual application. "

The last written statement by Kurtz is important. "Destroy all beasts" (46). This is a paradigm expression of the goal of the western colonial era (religious and economic) expansion. Extinction is the core of Western religious memory. The first mention about writing in the Bible - in particular as writing to memory - happens in the context of the planned extinction of everyone: William Cornwallis Harris' South African wild sports (1838), the first African epidemics A hunting book named Enlightenment offers cruel reasons for Kurz prohibiting "eliminating all beasts." "There is a property need determined by reason, justice and mankind to be excluded from the earth.The monster population as a noninvasive destroyer and the cruel enemies of the Queen's Christian object are thoughtful, I lost all those requests I wanted. "(192)