Frantz Fanon · Politics
The most controversial argument in Fanon’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.
You learned that Fanon argued colonialism is a regime of violence, so decolonization is ‘always a violent phenomenon,’ and that at the level of the individual he described violence as a ‘cleansing force’ against the colonial inferiority complex - while critics (Arendt, the Gandhian tradition, a…
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