2min chapter

Red Menace cover image

The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: On Violence and Spontaneity

Red Menace

CHAPTER

Decolonization Is a Violent Event End Quote

Bennon insists that decolonization is a historic process which must be understood as the encounter between two congenitally antagonistic forces. The colonizers have to create an image of the colonized as these dehumanized more animalistic sort of another species really who can be rightfully oppressed exploited and who can have their land stolen from them. So colonization actually is a process that transforms the colonized in a specific way by transforming them into what Benon says is another species. This transformation can only be achieved through violent confrontation between colonizer and the colonized, but not insisting that it reeks of red hot cannonballs and bloody knives.

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode