The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis
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The Transformational Power of Violence
In the last chapter of Benon's book we get some really interesting insights into this reality. We see how colonial violence not only dehumanizes and destroys the colonized natives but guts its own agents of their humanity. By seeing the psychological impact of colonization on the colonial forces themselves we can see how universalized intense violence is within the colonial context. It allows us to reframe the context in which revolutionary violence occurs so we can understand its necessity more clearly.
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