The work was strongly influenced by Frantz Fanon and Karl Marx. He has also examined Johannesburg as a metropolitan city and the work of Frantz Fanon. For Fanon the natives must violently resist colonial subjugation. The third group described by Fanon are the lumpenproletariat. In 1945, Fanon returned to Martinique. The pallium is placed over the fanon. Bloobert Cob was later given a name, sector assignment, and history as online "fanon". An example of this according to Fanon is the Malagsy culture. According to Fanon this conflict takes form as negation of white affirmation. Fanon and his fellow Afro-Caribbean soldiers were sent to Toulon (Provence). Jeanson was insulted, became angry, and dismissed Fanon from his editorial office.