One of the most powerful critiques of enlightenment humanism I've read.

Key point: the only reason liberals became affronted by fascism was because it was their own colonial techniques of subjugation and control turned back on themselves, on white people, on the enlightened race. While it was applied to coloured folk, there was only the benevolent smile of authoritarian patriarchs, the condescension that it was for the colonised people's own good. Hitler not as aberration but end point of European enlightenment.

Thus, a need for a new form of humanism that takes one's concrete standpoint as the beginnings of consciousness, not a reified abstraction that comes from nowhere yet arrived everywhere already as fact.