Foucault’s boomerang, except it’s stuck in Illinois with a truckful of boomerangs that ran out of gas.
in truth, the imperial violence was aways directed inwards against the colonized in the core as much as outside towards the colonized in the colonies, that’s why i’d say imperialism is modernity, it’s been there for a long time and it’s gonna stay until collapse or sovietization
This only applies to the core where people are colonized, because then it was a colony before it was the core. IE true for Native Americans in the USA, but Foucault was French, and presumably thinking of France.
Side note, the boomerang doesn’t refer to imperialist violence, but colonial violence.
algerian people were however subjected to police brutality in France even more before the independence, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_massacre_of_1961 isn’t all imperialist violence colonial though?
