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>Idol worship of Blacks
The one true faith of the Left.

Marlow idolised Kurtz because he was thought to be imposing White norms onto the blackest of Black Africans. The journey into the Heart of Darkness is that the Black Africans had imposed their norms onto Kurtz, and instead of being a Caesar training Gauls into civilisation, Kurtz was transformed into an African tribal chief, complete with Black wife, corrupted to their worst bestial nature.

The novella is a warning of the power of African corruption of White civilised norms that Conrad had witnessed as a sailor. It was a warning ignored, now Marlow could have demonstrated his story to the Thames boat crew by stepping off the ship into South London instead of telling a story about river trips to Africa.