In most cases, the colonizers just arbitrarily declare their “legitimacy” to govern the colony and maintain this “legitimacy” through the use of military terror, just as Frantz Fanon depicted in the Wretched of the Earth “[the colonized and the colonizer’s ] first confrontation is colored by violence and their cohabitation … continued at the point of the bayonet and under cannon fire”(Fanon, 2). The natives never get the chance to make any decision. They are forced and beaten into submission. In the case of Algeria, the French used similar method. It declared Algeria as its colony by stationing it’s troop in Sidi Ferruch and continued its governance by constantly garrisoning the colony (Tom cooper). During the governance of the French, there was no general will, for the governor decided to dismiss the native’s idea from the very beginning. Consequently, for the colonized people, the so called government is just a fake authority for two reasons: A. it is not formed by the native through a social compact, but by the foreigners through military forces, and B, it is maintained also by military terror. On the other hand, because the natives is so familiar with the idea of military power, they also become aggressive and more tend to use violence to solve problem. Hence, if we stand on the colonized people and the outsiders' perspectives, the natives indeed have the right to overthrow the government. However, from the colonizers' perspectives, "Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end" (Mill, 8). The colonizers seem to regards their illegitimate government as warranted, and thus they are unwilling to just let the natives take over their governance. This irresolvable divergence between the colonized people and the colonizers worsens the situation-- it forebodes the
In most cases, the colonizers just arbitrarily declare their “legitimacy” to govern the colony and maintain this “legitimacy” through the use of military terror, just as Frantz Fanon depicted in the Wretched of the Earth “[the colonized and the colonizer’s ] first confrontation is colored by violence and their cohabitation … continued at the point of the bayonet and under cannon fire”(Fanon, 2). The natives never get the chance to make any decision. They are forced and beaten into submission. In the case of Algeria, the French used similar method. It declared Algeria as its colony by stationing it’s troop in Sidi Ferruch and continued its governance by constantly garrisoning the colony (Tom cooper). During the governance of the French, there was no general will, for the governor decided to dismiss the native’s idea from the very beginning. Consequently, for the colonized people, the so called government is just a fake authority for two reasons: A. it is not formed by the native through a social compact, but by the foreigners through military forces, and B, it is maintained also by military terror. On the other hand, because the natives is so familiar with the idea of military power, they also become aggressive and more tend to use violence to solve problem. Hence, if we stand on the colonized people and the outsiders' perspectives, the natives indeed have the right to overthrow the government. However, from the colonizers' perspectives, "Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end" (Mill, 8). The colonizers seem to regards their illegitimate government as warranted, and thus they are unwilling to just let the natives take over their governance. This irresolvable divergence between the colonized people and the colonizers worsens the situation-- it forebodes the