The Wretched of the Earth

Fanon views on violence, what he mean by colonialiam came through violent and must go through violent

Fanon view on violence

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Violence is a frequent theme in The Wretched of the Earth, and Fanon is particularly interested in showing how different forms of violence repeat in colonial and post-colonial history. Colonialism first maintains the authority of the colonist through violence, eliciting submission from the colonized through the police and soldiers. But this means that the colonized can only free themselves by reversing the dynamic and themselves exercising violence against the colonist. The colonized learn violence from the colonist, and then use it against them. At the same time, after independence, the most powerful within the new nation may, like the old colonists, once against use violence to elicit the submission of the rural masses. Thus, the cycle begins again.