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Ghandi, Fanon and Césaire


            History is besieged by eras and stories of humans enslaving and colonizing one another. Yet, it is by viewing such stories through the lens of the oppressed, that we gain a narrative, which best identifies with human emotion, forcing on us a carnal disgust for what humanity is capable of. Yet within such stories, emerge heroes who defied the conventional status quo, pushing for the recognition of equality, a idea once thought to be radical. Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and M.K. Gandhi are all visionaries that represent entire movements formed on the basis of fighting for indigenous rights. Frantz Fanon encouraged the oppressed to retaliate against the colonizers using violence; although Aimé Césaire agreed violence was necessary in order for the colonizers to listen he believed they deserved it considering decolonization led to racialization. M.K. Gandhi's ideology stands out the most because he preached peaceful counter play. Each of these revolutionists pursued a different strategy, yet all held the same underlying belief that colonization was unethical. They understood the deep imprint colonization had on radicalism, and the effects it held on the way people view humanity in that day. The most violent of strategies attempting to eradicate colonization is one where the side, which incurs the greatest bloodshed, rises as victor. This strategy was best demonstrated in the Algerian-French conflict through revolutionary decolonization as Fanon and Césaire express through Marxist theories. Whereas Gandhi voiced for a peaceful battle, as an example of negotiated decolonization who promoted the exact opposite of Marxist. Fanon, however, aimed to resolve the conflict by pursuing the strategy of the colonizers, violence. .
             Frantz Fanon was an anti-colonial thinker who was deeply devoted to finding a solution to colonialism. Fanon refers to colonialism as "the substitution of one species of mankind by another" (Fanon, p.


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