Every year or so, I revisit The Wretched of the Earth, the 1961 magnum opus of legendary anti-colonialist marxist philosopher Frantz Fanon. I get something new out of it every time I do so.

In the opening section of the work, “Concerning Violence,” Fanon succinctly details the differences in the disciplines apparatuses of colonialism and capitalism. He demonstrates that both are fundamentally based on violence, yet the violence inherent in the disciplining apparatus of colonialism exceeds that of the latter (all emphases mine).