Maybe don’t put quotes from slaveowners glorifying their imperial project under a post on Kwame Ture.

The American “Revolution” was a capitalist one. It’s nothing worth celebrating.

History is also littered with the even-worse consequences of not trying, such as our western cowardice and complicity resulting in the Gaza genocide.

Yes, ideally only the morally correct and righteous causes would justify the use of violence, but unfortunately it’s also the misguided, misunderstood, or misrepresented causes that also justify violence. People want to use quotes like this to justify THEIR desire for violence, but sometimes their causes are just bad.

National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon.

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Decolonization is the veritable creation of new men. But this creation owes nothing of its legitimacy to any supernatural power; the “thing” which has been colonized becomes man during the same process by which it frees itself.

In decolonization, there is therefore the need of a complete calling in question of the colonial situation. If we wish to describe it precisely, we might find it in the wellknown words: “The last shall be first and the first last.” Decolonization is the putting into practice of this sentence. That is why, if we try to describe it, all decolonization is successful.

The naked truth of decolonization evokes for us the searing bullets and bloodstained knives which emanate from it. For if the last shall be first, this will only come to pass after a murderous and decisive struggle between the two protagonists. That affirmed intention to place the last at the head of things, and to make them climb at a pace (too quickly, some say) the well-known steps which characterize an organized society, can only triumph if we use all means to turn the scale, including, of course, that of violence.

You do not turn any society, however primitive it may be, upside down with such a program if you have not decided from the very beginning, that is to say from the actual formulation of that program, to overcome all the obstacles that you will come across in so doing. The native who decides to put the program into practice, and to become its moving force, is ready for violence at all times. From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.

~ Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

Your point, that the oppressed should stay subservient and exploited because the struggle for liberation will bring about violence from the oppressor, ignores the generations of violence done onto the vast majority of the world and the violence that continues to weigh upon and threatens to crush everyone under this capitalist-imperialist hellscape. You should fight because of that violence.

the assumption that political violence must mean dead or maimed people says something about the people saying.

back in 2017, the mexican threw a couple bricks and broke a couple windows like americans used to do during the civil rights era and they ended up getting president Shienbaum because of it – meanwhile our aversion gave us trump.

As a black man, without violence my ancestors would still be slaves, so I would take violence against my white masters every day even if I die trying.