The Wretched of the Earth

The Wretched of the Earth Colonialism is an integral part of the history of the planet. It is the reason why so many nations brace stark cultural similarities with others. Colonialism is answerable for many people being satisfactory to find out each other through with(predicate) speaking the same language. Colonialism was the offshoot of the recent phenomenon c in alled globalization. This earth has seen colonialism for many centuries as far back as ancient Greek and Egyptian civilization. Colonialism, as we know it immediately still is the domination, acquisition, exploitation, or expansion, of one territory by a nonher territory.This usually meaning the settler and the colony are in two separate regions or even two separate continents. It typically includes the subjugation of the people of the get to being colonized. This colonizing behavior dates back to the early 1400s with its roots in Europe which began with the Portuguese and the Spanish. Although small town was th e early globalization, it did non have such(prenominal) a positive impact on everyone as globalization has today. liquidation only if benefitted the settlers which are the nations seeking and dominating other lands.Successful colonization meant colonist control of the government, the economy, the labor force, and essentially the lives of the colonized. Unfortunately, not everyone benefitted from this colonization. Those colonized were forced practically enslaved and exploited for their nations resources. If their war machine forces were not as mighty as the colonists, they had no chance of keeping their rights as free people. Frantz fanon was innate(p) in 1925 in French- ruled Martinique, a small Caribbean island.He was raised in a family that was the equivalence of the bourgeoisie loving class. The people in this social class were advocates for White- French assimilation. After being taught the philosophy of negritude, he did not wish to remain a part of this social class. He left wing Martinique in 1943 to help the Free French campaign World state of war III. After this war, Fanon studied Psychiatry at Lyons University in France where he experient complete volumes of racism. Fanon accepted a position as Chief of staff in a psychiatric hold of a French hospital.He was responsible for treating distressed officers and soldiers who had been affected mentally by the Algerian conflict. By 1956, Frantz discontinue his work for the French government in Algeria because of the negative effects their colonization had on the people. He could no longer treat the French in the hospital he worked when they knowingly inflicted torture on the people of Algeria. erst he officially stopped working for the French government, Fanon joined the fight for Algerian independence.During this time, he traveled different nations in Africa to help inning their resources. It during this time he published a series of works that were in favor of study rights and anti-colo nialism. He wrote the Wretched of the Earth within the stretch forth year of his life. The purpose of this piece was to expose the savagery and the atrocity of colonialism. It explored the psychological effect of colonization and racism as well as a movement to decolonization. In this book, he argues that force-out is necessary for independence.The very initiative chapter of the book, Concerning Violence, explores several topics. In the first sentence Fanon states, National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is ever so a violent phenomenon. He is not endorsing violence he is just letting us know that it is fateful with liberation as the cause. Fanon teaches us that decolonization sets out to change the baseball club of the world.It is the substitution of one species for another and brings new men, new language and a new humanity. Fanon iden tifies the different parties of the natives who are involved in decolonization. These parties are the politicians, the bourgeoisie, and the crosspatch. The politicians only want to reform colonization not remove it while peasant are the most revolutionary being that they have nothing to nod off and the most to gain. According to Fanon, decolonization is the physically removing the control of territory from the colonist back to the people.When Frantz Fanon discusses violence, he means force or aggression. By violence he means something that causes injury whether it is physical or psychological. In all of his descriptions of decolonization, he maintains that violence is a component in achieving them. In our ball club violence is something that should be avoided by all means necessary. We believe today that violence terminates basic human rights. Fanon openly accepted violence as an ingredient in successful decolonization while others tries to reach that final result peacefully.For his open and honest opinion on his take on violence, Fanon is viewed as controversial. There are many that strongly disagree with his opinion and on that point are some that believe that his thesis is true only when for extreme subject fields only. The final chapter of the book, Colonial War and Mental Disorders, Fanon describes his studies in the psychiatric ward of the Algerian hospital. In this chapter he notes how the nature of colonialism affects mental health by describing some of the patients he came in contact with.He used the cases to show the mountain chain of disorders between the colonists and the colonized. He provides multiple series of cases, series A through D. serial publication A has five cases that all display Algerian or European people who had clear symptoms of the reactionary type of mental disorder. Series B displayed cases that rose while Algeria was in total war. The first case in series B is particularly interesting. It deals with 2 Algerians boys that murdered their European friend. Their reasoning for this was simply because Europeans killed arabs.It is clear from these cases why Fanon believes that violence is necessary to change by reversal foreign government and for a nation to be independent. The revolutionaries will always meet opposition by the perpetrators of colonialism when fighting for freedom. It is very rare that colonist will give up their colony without a fight. Due to their military strength and technology, colonist can easily stop the freedom fighters but they will not give up without a fight. Without returning the violence, the revolutionaries would not be able to gain and maintain power of their land.When violence occurs in the struggle for freedom, revolutionaries become united. With the continuous build up of tension and advantaged treatment, I believe that violence is inevitable as well. Though this book was a little difficult to get through, the benefit of taking the time to understand is large. I enjoyed learning about world history especially colonialism from a psychological point of view. I would recommend this book to anyone that is completing studies in anything from psychology, politics, sociology, rhetoric and certainly history.