Frantz Fanon · Politics

Violence and Decolonization

The most controversial argument in Fanon&rsquo;s <em>The Wretched of the Earth</em>: that colonialism is founded and held in place by violence, and that its undoing therefore involves violence - which, at the level of the individual, Fanon describes as a force that can free the colonized from the paralysis of the inferiority complex. Presented in context, with its serious critics.

What you'll be able to recall

You learned that Fanon argued colonialism is a regime of violence, so decolonization is &lsquo;always a violent phenomenon,&rsquo; and that at the level of the individual he described violence as a &lsquo;cleansing force&rsquo; against the colonial inferiority complex - while critics (Arendt, the Gandhian tradition, a…

Leads to Mohandas Gandhi.

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