Fanon's Four Stages Of Violence

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In the reading, Roberts offers an illustration of and an explanation of Fanon's ideas of inherent violence with anti-colonialism. Rather than argue against Fanon's point, he elaborates on the different conditions and types of violence. Roberts names four stages of intrinsic value within violence, which converge with gender divisions and various types of violence. His position gives a new light to violence, as a natural occurrence, rather than something created by men to further anti-colonialism. Revolutionary violence follows suit when colonies fight for liberation. Violence and anti-colonialism go hand-in-hand as one must act as enforcement for the other. Fanon's perspective gave an organic perspective to violence, while Roberts' piece elaborated

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