Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET November 2021 Political Science
'Revolutionary violence is not just cathartic but is noble. It also allows the colonial subjects to recreate themselves'. Whose statement is this?
AFrantz Fanon ✓ Correct
BHannah Arendt
CHobbes
DMachiavelli
Answer: A
Explanation
★The statement that revolutionary violence is cathartic and lets colonial subjects recreate themselves is Frantz Fanon's.
★A psychiatrist and revolutionary from Martinique, Fanon analysed the psychology of colonial domination.
★He set out this view in The Wretched of the Earth (1961), written in the context of the Algerian struggle.
★For Fanon, anti-colonial violence could free the colonised from their imposed sense of inferiority.
★Arendt, Hobbes and Machiavelli wrote on violence and power, but this decolonial argument is Fanon's.
★So Frantz Fanon is the correct answer.
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