ABSTRACT
Franz Fanon died in 1961 at the age of thirty-six, at which time Algeria honored him with a state funeral and with a boulevard and a university in his name. His writings, including a number of psychiatric publications, show a certain open mindedness and critical acumen, only occasionally subordinate to the requirements of propaganda. His advocacy of violence has often been compared with Georges Sorel's essay on violence. The Paris philosopher actually called for the physical annihilation of Europeans and spoke of Europe as a continent which had endlessly betrayed and cheated the rest of the world. Fanon was more a creature of the European system than he would ever know or admit, although he wanted to free a whole continent from it. Fanon might well have become an adoptive "Palestinian" next, for he could only find a place for himself in a movement and a struggle and not in an established order.
