violence (n.) is a cleansing force which is required in anticolonial movements in order to effect the expulsion of the colonizer and the mental…

Frantz Fanon on Violence

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Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

Uncontrolled violence is a fault of youth.

Violence is a calm that disturbs you. Jean Genet

Violence is a tool of the ignorant. Flip Wilson

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.

is a cleansing force which is required in anticolonial movements in order to effect the expulsion of the colonizer and the mental 'decolonization' of the native oppressed (making him fearless and self-respecting).

Fanon believed that anticolonial violence was required in order to achieve two intimately connected objectives: the expulsion of the colonizer and the mental 'decolonization' of native Algerians. To Fanon, this latter aim was fundamental because institutional independence from the colonizer would mean little if the people remained psychologically trapped within a self-image as colonized, dehumanized objects. Fanon observed that Algerians were indeed violent under colonial rule, but this violence was directed toward other Algerians as an expression of self-hatred in which 'black-on-black' violence represented a futile effort to negate the dehumanized identity imposed upon them. In the movement, led by the FLN, to redirect this violence toward the colonizer, Fanon conceived of a way to construct and affirm a positive political identity infused with a national consciousness liberated from the colonized mindset: 'At the level of individuals, violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction... it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect' (Fanon 1963, p. 94).

is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction... it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect.

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction... it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect Frantz Fanon

is both the poison of colonialism and its antidote.

violence fundamentally defined the meaning and practice of colonialism, and as such violence was central to the effort to resist and overthrow colonial rule. For Fanon, violence was both the poison of colonialism and its antidote.'

is structurally present and cannot be defeated except by structural transformation, which party political action cannot bring about.

For Fanon violence is structurally present, and cannot be defeated except by structural transformation, which party political action cannot bring about. Violence . . .

is such that one need not always reply to it by a greater violence, but rather to see how to relax the tension.

So we see that all parties are aware of the power of such violence and that the question is not always to reply to it by a greater violence, but rather to see how to relax the tension. What is the real anture of this violence' (Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth).

is like Achilles' lance in that it can heal the wounds it has inflicted.

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. Frantz Fanon

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