HIST 2C Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Frantz Fanon
Document Summary
The colonial world is divided into the colonist and the colonized. These identities are created by the colonist in order to assert his own superiority. The colonists maintains their power over the colonized through violence of law enforcement. In this system, violence is the only way for the colonized to gain their freedom. Involves the colonized from freeing themselves from the identity imposed upon them by the colonists. Colonized form political organizations and elites/intellectuals form political parties. These generally ignore the desires of the colonized in rural areas. Colonized workers in cities unionize and strike but they also exclude the rural masses. True revolution is led by the masses that discover violence allows them to liberate themselves as well as fight colonialism. These three groups: urban elite, urban workers and rural workers come together to form a nation after they have won independence.
