Gandhi Vs Fanon Essay

Despite the fact that Fanon and Gandhi, in their pursuit of independence, have tried to rid the colonized people of feelings of inferiority and alienation, despair and inaction, Gandhi is drawn to the nonviolent resistance in South Africa and India, whereas Fanon shows his approbation of the resistance violence in Algeria and revolutionary violence in Iran. However, certain issues remain controversial in both realms: (1) whether violence is an innate feature in human nature, (2) the degree of the realistic effectiveness of violent and nonviolent resistance, and (3) the circumstances that can cause each approach to emerge.

Throughout his life, Frantz Fanon tried not only to criticize European (Western) civilization by analyzing its violent enforcement of colonialism, imperialism and racism on the people in the Third World countries in order to subordinate them, but also to harbinger the emergence of a new human race, which would occur in the course of the revolutionary decolonization against the oppressors. Fanon's "new man" is the one, with the unity of theory and
It is therefore correct that every European, in what he could say about the Orient, was consequently a racist, an imperialist, and almost totally ethnocentric. Some of the immediate sting will be taken out of these labels if we recall additionally that human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything but imperialism, racism and ethnocentrism for dealing with 'other' cultures. So Orientalism aided and was aided by general cultural pressures that tended to make more rigid the sense of difference between the European and Asiatic parts of the world. My contention is that Orientalism is fundamentally a political doctrine willed over the Orient because the Orient was weaker than the West, which elided the Orient's difference with its weakness. (Said, Orientalism