1. El Colonialismo como Acto de Violencia Inherente.
El colonialismo no es un sistema racional, sino una forma de violencia en su estado natural, que solo cede ante una violencia mayor.
- “colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state.”.
- “colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence.“ frantz fanon, 1961.
- "colonialism is not a thinking machine, nor a body endowed with reasoning faculties. It is violence in its natural state, and it will only yield when confronted with greater violence." - frantz fanon.
2. La Destrucción de la Identidad y la Cultura por el Colonialismo.
El colonialismo no solo oprime físicamente, sino que también distorsiona y destruye la cultura y la historia de los pueblos colonizados.
- “… colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures, and destroys it.” frantz fanon.
- "colonialism is not satisfied merely withholding a people in its grip, but it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and destroys it."- frantz fanon.
3. La Necesidad de la Descolonización y la Lucha Contra el Colonialismo.
Para un futuro mejor, es imperativo exponer y abolir el colonialismo, ya que solo cede cuando se enfrenta a una mayor violencia.
- Finally, i read “discourse on colonialism” by aimé césaire, and i highly recommend it. Without exposing and abolishing colonialism there is no hope for the future.
- Colonialism only loosens its hold when the knife is at its throat. —frantz fanon.
- With colonialism it is useless to hope for the slightest softening…colonialism is a war force; it has to be beaten down by force. —frantz fanon.
4. El Impacto Psicológico del Colonialismo en Colonizados y Colonizadores.
El colonialismo genera un profundo impacto psicológico tanto en los colonizados, que internalizan la inferioridad, como en los colonizadores, que se deshumanizan.
- Anti-colonial marxists like frantz fanon insisted colonialism isn’t just violence—it’s epistemic and psychic: it colonises minds to erase dignity, knowledge, creativity, spirituality, and cultural continuity.
- Frantz fanon's the wretched of the earth was really clarifying to me on this point. As a psychologist he observed the immense psychic toll that colonialism had on the colonized and the colonizer, the latter trying to dispel guilt, the former lashing out.
- Fanon talks abt how colonialism dehumanizes the colonizer as much as it does the colonized.
5. El Colonialismo y su Repercusión en la Actualidad.
El colonialismo no es solo un evento histórico, sino que sus efectos persisten en la actualidad, manifestándose en diversas formas de opresión y desigualdad.
- Ive been revisiting aimé césaires discourse on colonialism and its never been more relevant than before tbh.
- “the wars over history, empire, and colonialism that have flared up so viciously of late are about the future as much as the past.”.
- Colonialism is the massive fog that has clouded our imaginations regarding who we could be, excised our memories of who we once were, and numbed our understanding of our current existence.” - waziyatawin.