{"id":110246,"date":"2025-05-24T13:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=110246"},"modified":"2025-05-24T13:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T18:24:08","slug":"110246","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=110246","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The killer of the two Israelis in America had the same ideology as the Southport killer &#8211; it\u2019s not Islamism, it\u2019s Fanonism. I don\u2019t expect the media will explain or criticise it though, on account of the fact it\u2019s openly taught in western university humanities departments.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Peter Hague (@peterrhague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peterrhague\/status\/1926192182710411463?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/literariness.org\/2017\/10\/09\/fanonism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fanonism:<\/a><br \/>\nBy\u00a0<a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View all posts by NASRULLAH MAMBROL\" href=\"https:\/\/literariness.org\/author\/nasrullahmambrol\/\" rel=\"author\">NASRULLAH MAMBROL<\/a>\u00a0<em>on<\/em>\u00a0<a title=\"4:00 pm\" href=\"https:\/\/literariness.org\/2017\/10\/09\/fanonism\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2017-10-09T16:00:41+05:30\">October 9, 2017<\/time><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A term for the anti-colonial liberationist critique formulated by the Martiniquan psychiatrist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/literariness.org\/2016\/04\/07\/frantz-fanon-s-contribution-to-postcolonial-criticism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frantz Fanon<\/a>\u00a0(1925\u20131961).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fanon\u2019s work in Algeria led him to become actively involved in the Algerian liberation movement and to publish a number of foundational works on racism and colonialism. These include\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/abahlali.org\/files\/__Black_Skin__White_Masks__Pluto_Classics_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black Skin, White Masks<\/a><\/em>(1952, translated 1968), a study of the psychology of racism and colonial domination. Just before his death he published\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/thebaluch.com\/documents\/0802150837%20-%20FRANTZ%20FANON%20-%20The%20Wretched%20of%20the%20Earth.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Wretched of the Earth\u00a0<\/a><\/em>(1961), a broader study of how anti-colonial sentiment might address the task of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/literariness.org\/2017\/10\/04\/decolonization\/\">decolonization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section>In these texts Fanon brought together the insights he derived from his clinical study of the effects of colonial domination on the psyche of the colonized<strong> and his\u00a0Marxist\u00a0derived analysis<\/strong> of social and economic control.<\/section>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From this conjunction he developed his idea of a comprador class, or \u00e9lite, who exchanged roles with the white colonial dominating class without engaging in any radical restructuring of society. The black skin of these compradors was \u2018masked\u2019 by their complicity with the values of the white colonial powers. Fanon argued that the native intelligentsia must radically restructure the society on the firm foundation of the people and their values.<\/p>\n<p>However, Fanon, like other early National Liberationist figures such as the Trinidadian\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/C-L-R-James\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">C.L.R. James<\/a>\u00a0and the Cape Verdean Amilcar Cabral, did not advocate a naive view of the pre-colonial.\u00a0Fanon\u2019s nationalism was always what<a href=\"https:\/\/literariness.org\/2017\/06\/08\/key-theories-of-edward-said\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Edward Said<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/janeaustensummer.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/01\/culture_and_imperialism.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Culture and Imperialism<\/a><\/em> has defined as \u2018critical nationalism\u2019, that is, formed in an awareness that pre-colonial societies were never simple or homogeneous and that they contained socially prejudicial class and gender formations that stood in need of reform by a radical force.<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/literariness.org\/2017\/06\/08\/key-theories-of-edward-said\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Said<\/a>\u00a0has noted \u2018[Fanon\u2019s] notion was that unless national consciousness at its moment of success was somehow changed into social consciousness, the future would not hold liberation but an extension of imperialism\u2019 (1993: 323). For\u00a0Fanon, the task of the national liberator, often drawn as he himself was from a colonially educated \u00e9lite, was to \u2018join the people in that fluctuating movement which they are just giving a shape to . . . which will be the signal for everything to be called into question\u2019 1952:168)<\/p>\n<p>Although\u00a0Fanon\u00a0is sometimes recruited to the banner of a naive form of nativism, he took a more complicated view of tradition and the precolonial as well as of its role in the construction of the modern postcolonial state.<\/p>\n<p>Fanon, of course, recognized and gave a powerful voice to the fact that for the new national leaders \u2018the passionate search for a national culture which existed before the colonial era finds its legitimate reason in the anxiety shared by many indigenous intellectuals to shrink away from that western culture in which they all risk being swamped\u2019 and to \u2018renew contact once more with the oldest and most pre-colonial springs of their people\u2019 (1961:153\u20134). But he also recognized the danger that such pasts could be easily mythologized and used to create the new \u00e9lite power groups, masquerading as the liberators of whom he had warned.<\/p>\n<p>A national culture is not a folklore, nor an abstract populism that believes it can discover the people\u2019s true nature. It is not made up of the inert dregs of gratuitous actions, that is to say actions which are less and less attached to the ever present reality of the people. A national culture is the whole body of efforts made by a people in the sphere of thought to describe, justify and praise the action through which that people has created itself and keeps itself in existence. (1961: 154\u20135)<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his historical analysis,\u00a0Fanon\u00a0never lost sight of the importance of the subjective consciousness and its role in creating the possibilities for the hegemonic control of the colonized subject, and of the neo-colonial society that followed political independence. In studies such as\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.umass.edu\/afroam391g-shabazz\/files\/2010\/02\/Frantz-Fanon.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Fact of Blackness<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(1952) he addressed the importance of the visible signs of racial difference in constructing a discourse of prejudice, and the powerful and defining psychological effects of this on the self-construction of black peoples.<\/p>\n<p>Much of\u00a0Fanon\u2019s work gives definition to the radical attempt to oppose this in the discourses of the black consciousness movement that emerged\u00a0 in America and Britain in the 1960s and which drew much of its inspiration from\u00a0Fanon\u2019s work. Although it might be argued that later theorists such as Amilcar Cabral presented a more effective political programme for implementing the radical transformation of the native colonial intelligentsia in what Cabral called, in a memorable phrase, \u2018a veritable forced march along the road to cultural progress\u2019 (Cabral 1973), it was in the interweaving of the specific and personal with the general and social that\u00a0Fanon\u2019s distinctive and profoundly influential contribution was made.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<em>Post-colonial Studies The Key Concepts<\/em>\u00a0Second edition Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin, Routledge 2007.<br \/>\nFurther reading: Fanon 1952, 1959, 1961.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The killer of the two Israelis in America had the same ideology as the Southport killer &#8211; it\u2019s not Islamism, it\u2019s Fanonism. I don\u2019t expect the media will explain or criticise it though, on account of the fact it\u2019s openly taught in western university humanities departments. \u2014 Peter Hague (@peterrhague) May 24, 2025 Fanonism: By\u00a0NASRULLAH &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=110246\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-til-today-i-learned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110247,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110246\/revisions\/110247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}