...The Dialectics of Violence ...

... Whereas most—notably Hannah Arendt—draw Sorel and Fanon together with the goal of rejecting both, this chapter begins from the opposite gesture. Despite Jean-Paul Sartre’s terse dismissal of Sorel’s “fascist utterances,” Fanon’s formulation of violence and revolutionary dialectics shares much...

... Dussel, in particular his Philosophy of Liberation . Whereas Dussel appears to reject dialectics as itself colonial and—like Fanon—bound up with ontological domination, his rejection of dialectics is not complete. Instead, Dussel reformulates a decolonized dialectics that both begins from and opens out...

... of the usefulness of decolonized dialectics. It is argued that the Bolivarian process set into motion in 1989, and which brought Hugo Chávez to power in 1998, is best understood not only as an expression of the demands of the oppressed, but also the public appearance of those excluded socially, economically...