While several scholars have explored the connections between the work of Frantz Fanon and Pierre Bourdieu through their shared relationship to French Colonial Algeria, comparatively less work has examined the shared perspectives on colonialism from which they both draw and where the discontinuities emerge. This paper explores the differences between these two thinkers, namely in their conceptualizing of the potential for a revolutionary consciousness to emerge from colonial populations during anticolonial actions. I argue in this article that where Bourdieu conceives of the horror of colonialism as a violent clash of cultures producing ‘hysteresis’ and a level of socio-political alienation from the most dispossessed sectors of society, Fanon conceives of a revolutionary consciousness emerging from the threat of racialized violence genocide and colonial subjection. Bourdieu however suggests that anticolonial revolutionary fervor cannot emerge from populations most dispossessed by the violence of colonization. While Bourdieu’s analysis drew solely from the Algerian case, Fanon recognized anticolonial struggle to be a fundamental type of revolution that could be theorized. In this, Fanon analyzed the Algerian revolution in the context of other anticolonial actions taking place across Africa and the world. Fanon thereby lays out a theory of the role of racism in structuring colonialism and fostering a revolutionary consciousness that is distinct. This cleavage of perspectives from two seemingly similarly inclined theorists emerges from a divergent view of the role of racism in dehumanizing and structuring colonial subjectivities and the effects of colonialism on those most aggrieved by it to spur political action.

虽然有几位学者通过弗朗茨·法农和皮埃尔·布尔迪厄与法国殖民地阿尔及利亚的共同关系探索了他们的作品之间的联系，但相对较少的工作研究了他们对殖民主义的共同观点以及不连续性出现的地方。本文探讨了这两位思想家之间的差异，即他们对反殖民行动期间从殖民地人口中出现的革命意识的潜力进行概念化。我在这篇文章中认为，布迪厄将殖民主义的恐怖视为一种文化的暴力冲突，产生了“滞后”和与最贫困的社会阶层的社会政治疏离，法农设想了一种从种族化暴力种族灭绝和殖民征服的威胁中出现的革命意识。然而，布尔迪厄认为，最受殖民暴力剥夺的人群不会产生反殖民革命的热情。虽然布迪厄的分析完全来自阿尔及利亚的案例，但法农承认反殖民斗争是一种可以理论化的基本革命类型。在这方面，法农在非洲和世界各地发生的其他反殖民行动的背景下分析了阿尔及利亚革命。法农由此提出了一种关于种族主义在构建殖民主义和培养独特的革命意识中的作用的理论。