 If the colonized intellectual and the precolonial forms of life are not just insufficient for, but actually damaging to, postcolonial world-making, then the future is a break with the past. Grievances composed of memories of historical violence (e.g., the Arab slave trade in black Africa) or ethno-religious and other cultural disputes give way to revolutionary action that dispenses with, rather than draws on, memory. The break with the past, at the level of organization and intellectual formation, is made through revolutionary violence. So too is the future. There is no pre-existing national consciousness or national culture, no genius or visionary who conceives it ahead of time, which means that revolutionary violence must be purposeful, intentional, and oriented toward world-making. In this way, Fanon’s work on violence is never nihilistic or random. Strategically, this means everything because conceptions of politics, culture, and the postcolonial social order hinge on the proper sense of violence.