"The Wretched of the Earth"

Finally, I have found and bought this book.

Yum, Let me first start with Satre's powerful first two sentences in hi preface to this book.

"Not so long ago the earth numbered 2 billion inhabitants, i.e 500 million men and 1.5 billion "natives". The first possessed the Word, the others borrowed it."

Intellectual Orgasm. Nice.


I will do a summary on the main points that Fanon touches on in "On Violence":

1) the disparity between Universalist Humanist values and their actual implementation.

2) the muscular tension with which the Colonized wait to take the place of the Colonizer

3) force is no mere exercise of the will but has to depend on very real preliminary conditions. Force by the "weaker" colonized only and will succeed in this condition of the Cold War

4) Violence is invested with positive and formative features in the hands of the colonised and only by escalating it into the condition of a necessary evil will the colonised rehumanise themselves and gain their freedom