Summary Of The Wretched Of The Earth

of The Wretched of the Earth (1961), supports a critique against colonization on the basis of a destructive nature to inflict inferiority upon the colonized. In his text, Fanon states that the ideological foundation of colonialism is the systematic denial of “all attributes of humanity” of the indigenous people. This includes “dehumanizing” through physical and mental violence to such a degree that they indoctrinate a submissive mentality onto the natives. Similarly, Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on Colonialism argues that acts of colonization had never been a benevolent movement toward improving the lives of the natives living in undeveloped colonies. Instead, he claims that the colonists’ were entirely self-motivated in economic exploitation.