`Concerning Violence,` by Frantz Fanon

Concerning Violence

Frantz Fanon importance in the field of human rights movement will be remembered in ages to come . He is the most important theorist and his works speak the depth of his commitment and endurance in the field of racism , colonization and revolutionary struggle for freedom . In the first chapter of his book , The Wretched of the Earth , he deeply immersed himself into the emotional dimensions in which colonized people often find themselves and the way they carry out their independent struggle for freedom . By giving us account of the rage

and frustration they faced and the role that violence played in the shaping the history , Fanon criticized politics that was being played during post independence era disenfranchisement and the taste that was created for the different set of animosities

Fanon says that the colonial world is divided into two parts with police stations and barracks acting as mediocre between the two worlds of colonizers and the colonized . Policeman and soldiers generate direct control on the colonized people by their atrocious and brutal ways and their presence indicate the dictatorship of the colonizers they act as their spokesperson . They suppress people by the brutal force . It simply implies that violence is at the core of the colonization itself . Police uses the violent ways to suppress more to already suppressed classes . In this dilemma , where one race crosses all the codes of human conduct and bestows all the savage and atrocious brutalities on the other race imparting not just physical injury but also injury to their soul and their whole identity , naturally they are bound to cry and ultimately their cries will turn to anger and disgust . This frustration in them first would emerge as resentment against other tribes and caste of their own race and ultimately would result in picking up arms against the actual enforcers of violence . In 1956 , when the Monsieur Guy Mollet surrendered himself to the settlers in Algeria , the leaflet from the Front de Liberation Nationale , echoed , Colonialism only loosens its hold when the knife is at its throat (Fanon 1965 ) After reading this not a single Algerian thought this statement as violent , as this feeling was raging like a fire in the hearts of every Algerian

It implies that decolonization is only possible by the violent ways , as it is violence only that can cuts the violence . Though the violent ways can lead to complete dis in the society , yet from this dis only will emerge the new and then only there will be People owning the authoritative s in the society will be changed and so will be the titles and names , ranging from private or entertainment affairs to the government department or the banking . The change of the of the society or department will bring new rays of hope for the colonized , their ambitions and their dreams and is needed by the suppressed class . As it opens up new avenues for the people , who since centuries , were only restricted within...