 Violence is therefore tasked with the greatest of pair of intertwined tasks: elimination of the colonial system at the level of imagination (how colonizer-colonized relations are naturalized as superiority and inferiority) and of material reality (exploitative relations of subordination and extraction), as well as formation of cultural, social, and political identities. The first chapter of Wretched outlines and amplifies this enormous potential of revolutionary, anti-colonial violence, and the chapters that follow elaborate the complexities of post-colonial formations of culture and politics.