Fanon, Frantz. 1963. The Wretched of the Earth. Pref. J.P. Sartre. Grove.

In conversation with Foucault and Said (especially when discussing psychology

and Manichean world/view that dehumanizes the native)
Fanon analyzes power during the colonial/decolonial moment. During the colonial
moment, the colonizer dominates and exploits the native through sheer violence. It is
often perceived that states (or the colonizers) control the legitimate uses of power, but
Fanon disagrees, because he believes that the native also has access to power through
violence which will come to the surface during the decolonization. Violence, thus,
becomes the legitimate source of power for both setter (in colonization) and native
(during decolonization).
The first encounter between was marked by violence (exploitation, domination and
pillage of native by settler). During colonization, the world is separated into two the
colonized world which is defined by explicit domination at the hands of police and
military and the capitalist world in which implicit domination through reification of
classes/oppression through social structure reification.
However, colonization is also about the physiological toll that it takes on the native. The
colonizer establishes what Fanon calls the Manichean World the state in which the
native has no humanity, and the colonizer does, the native has no history and the
colonizer writes history. Fanon writes, As if to show the totalitarian character of colonial
exploitation the settler paints the native as a sort of quintessence of evil.*Native society is
not simply described as a society lacking in values. It is not enough for the colonist to
affirm that those values have disappeared from, or still better never existed in, the
colonial world. The native is declared insensible to ethics; he represents not only the
absence of values, but also the negation of values. He is, let us dare to admit, the enemy
of values, and in this sense he is the absolute evil. He is the corrosive element, destroying
all that comes near him; he is the deforming element, disfiguring all that has to do with
beauty or morality; he is the depository of maleficent powers, the unconscious and
irretrievable instrument of blind forces. In sum, Manichaeism reaches its conclusion and
dehumanizes the colonized.
Yet, the colonized know that they are not animals and it is at this moment of realizing
their humanity that they begin the decolonization process. Decolonization is called upon,
demanded, by the men and women who are colonized. Decolonization is a historical
process the meeting of two forces, opposed to each other by their very nature.
Decolonization will, then, be a murderous and decisive struggle between settler and
native. Decolonization in particular, is the concern for Fanon in which there is a tabula
rasa (blank slate) once the decolonization process is complete. This is a battle for
humanity and land the land sustains the colonized. Decolonization is thus the violent
replacing of a certain species of men by another species of men a complete and total
substitution.