Political-Theoretical Contributions of Frantz Fanon to the Marxist Critique of LawWe present a legal-political analysis of the work of Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), exploring how law appears in his theoretical contributions to the analysis of reality, particularly regarding racism and colonialism, as well as in his political formulations for anti-racist and anti-colonial struggles. We find: (i) a structural critique of the historical relationship between international legal forms and the ontological racial dehumanization inherent in modern colonialism; (ii) a critique of international legal organizations as being the "legal charter" of imperialism, used when the "charter of brute force" fails to achieve the desired outcomes; (iii) the political use of law to mobilize international public opinion; and (iv) the political-pedagogical agitation of the cause of national liberation among revolutionary African masses.
Keywords:
Marxism; Frantz Fanon; Anti-colonialism; Marxist Critique of Law.