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Here, Fanon implies that viewing violence as a wholly bad thing is a Western ideal. To the Third World, after independence is won through violent means, this violence serves a positive purpose. Fanon later writes about the mental health issues associated with colonialism, and this “cleansing” violent uprising is a way to treat and quell ...
From violence emerges a unified fight against the colonists and the creation of a new, active, and liberated subjectivity to replace the earlier colonized subjectivity of submission and passivity. Fanon ends his first chapter by commenting on how this colonial fight fits into a larger global picture.
- Frantz Fanon
Part 1 Summary: “Concerning Violence”. Fanon opens Part 1 with the assertion that “decolonization is always a violent phenomenon” and proceeds to explain why (27). He argues that decolonization means overturning a political and ontological system.
Frantz Fanon analyzes violent rebellion as originating with violent rule. In the native's violent uprising against the colonizer, the violence is a force that originally stemmed from the colonizer. Fanon is not offering a moral justification of violent revolution. He is simply saying dehumanizing violent oppression eventually has violent ...
Fanon ’ s clearest and most thorough articulation of his views on colonialist and anticolonialist violence can be found in the chapter “ Concerning Violence ” in The Wretched of the Earth, published in 1961, his last work before his death. In it, Fanon argues that anticolonialism must be revolutionary rather than reformist.
The violence of the colonial regime and the counter-violence of the native balance each other and respond to each other in an extraordinary reciprocal homogeneity. This reign of violence will be the more terrible in proportion to the size of the implantation from the mother country.
