Books like Concerning Violence

Colonialism, as Fanon stated is not a "system endowed with reasoning faculties" but "violence in its natural state". This book explains the colonialist system very well, from its dehumanisation of the natives to explaining how the native male liberation is a form of reconstructing himself as a man. I especially found it interesting how Fanon explains that the natives ideal radical transformation of society is not at all different from the settlers thought. Its "them or us". Therefore the native wants the same thing as the settler, the eradication of the other group. Although the native doesn't need to do it gradually as it doesn't want to enslave the other but kill him. Moreover, Fanon follows this with stating that the violence of the settler and the counter reprisal of the native acts as balance. One puts in the other responds, with the western hemisphere denouncing the native act. The other thing I enjoyed was the ideas he had on the how the independent state should follow through the process of rebuilding their nation after the colonisers leave, in building a socialist base but with a superstructure that reflect their own culture and not of the West. He also highlights the problems these independent nations have when they are left on their own, with them being dependent on the European Market due to the specific agriculture the colonisers enforced the natives to cultivate. However he explains very loosely or give ideas on how to combat this.What Fanon clearly has convinced me of is that of the importance violence has in the liberation of the people, either it being the working class of third world continents or in the Western Hemisphere. I find it fair to leave a critique of this book, therefore I will end this review with a question. What about the role of the women in the liberation of the nation from colonialism?