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?
Agreed, I’d argue that was Foucault’s boomerang in action, though. France had colonies far before it had colonized people brought back to the mainland who could be subjected to domestic brutality.
To my understanding, no to the second point. Colonialism predates imperialism by quite a bit and they’re different phenomenons. Maybe the boomerang should be updated, lol. (Or maybe I’m misinterpreting it, I’ll admit to not having read a whole lot of Foucault.)
