Fanon distinguished three kinds of colonial violence with distinct political meanings

Evidence

Writing in the context of anticolonial struggle, he distinguished between three kinds of violence - the systemic racism through which colonialism attempts to reduce its subjects to subhuman status; the individualized black on black violence which arises from identification with the aggressor and the inversion of political hatred into neurotic selfhatred; and finally the revolutionary violence which liberates blacks from the structures of oppression that have imposed a false white self upon them … Just as Adorno is concerned to disentangle Marxism from its implication in dominative reason, by means of psychoanalysis, so Fanon seeks to rescue psychoanalysis from its Eurocentric bias, which he sees as legitimating its abusive clinical applications within the domain of colonial psychiatry, by introducing a Marxian perspective. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1336

Categorization

• DEFINE: A crisp threefold taxonomy of Fanon’s violence — systemic racism, black-on-black selfhatred from identification with the aggressor, and revolutionary liberation — worth keeping verbatim.
• XREF: The two parallel outsider critiques — Adorno purging Marxism of ‘dominative reason’ via psychoanalysis, Fanon purging psychoanalysis of Eurocentrism via Marxism — form a striking reciprocal mirror. — connects to: Imperial botany and colonial violence are inseparable in the Caribbean — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 758; Fanon distinguished systemic, self-directed, and revolutionary liberating violence under colonialism — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1336