Przejście od klimatu przemocy do przemocy konkretnej. Kategoria rewolucji w filozofii Frantza Fanona

Abstract

From climate of violence to concrete violence. Revolution in Frantz Fanon’s philosophy The article shows the philosophical idea of revolution formulated by Frantz Fanon in relation to the process of decolonization in his work The Wretched of the Earth. The conception of “world divided into compartments” – in which the colonialized territory is seen as a bipartite, incoherent space of forced coexistence of the colonized and the colonizer – is being analysed in detail. Animalistic imagery depressing natives was used for a description of dependent lands and was a way to strengthen the difference and highlight the separateness (not only a cultural one, but also racial and even opposition of human and inhuman/animal). In his prorevolutionary stand Fanon suspended and relativized the evaluation of violence and liberating war. Next subjects of the analysis are violence and threats connected to the forms of resistance and the moment of transition between the first, gentle rebellion strategies to revolutionary movements leading to decolonization. In the last part of the article I outline the impact of Fanon’s philosophical conception of revolution.