“That they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole edifice of Western, Christian civilization on its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.” (Aime Cesaire)
The study of post-colonialism has become a significant tool to understand about the vast problems of injustice, violence, and human abuses in the contemporary world. Cesaire (2000) in his book Discourse on Colonialism depicted that colonialism has profound effects not only for colonized people but also for colonizers themselves. For example, when the European soldiers tortured and killed indigenous people in Africa, actually they de-civilized and degraded themselves at the same time. Moreover, Cesaire argued that colonialism has linked to fascism in terms of using repressive and authoritarian behavior which it had been applied only to non-European peoples. In this context, it seems that colonialism and fascism to some extent have similar characteristics. In this paper, I would argue that problems of representation, race hatred, white’s superiority, state-sponsored violence, and civilization projects have become evidences that colonialism gave birth to fascism.
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