Frantz Fanon's exploration of violence as a tool for creativity and regeneration has often been juxtaposed with Georges Sorel's ideas presented in Reflexions sur la violence (1908). While Sorel envisioned the proletariat using violence to assert itself in an oppressive society without necessarily dismantling it, Fanon's perspective diverges significantly. For him, the peasant revolution is not a mere myth but a tangible reality, a mechanism to dismantle systems of exploitation. Fanon thus posits that violence holds a regenerative potential within the broader context of constructive social action.

Fanon’s intellectual journey traverses a significant evolution from his initial work, Black Skin, White Masks, often characterized as a personal account of a black intellectual grappling with his delayed encounter with the Western world. In contrast, his subsequent work, Studies in a Dying Colonialism, offers an insightful commentary on a society in the throes of restructuring, capturing a colonial people's journey toward self-determination. By the time he authored The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon had shifted his focus, underscoring the Third World’s peasantry as the new vanguard in the trajectory of modern history, effectively replacing the urban proletariat.

This conceptual shift is further elaborated in Toward the African Revolution, a compilation of Fanon's writings that chart the evolution of his thought from his departure from French bourgeois society to his untimely death in 1961. Through these works, Fanon delineates his vision of a world where the marginalized seize agency and reconstruct societal frameworks.

Fanon’s impact on political history, some argue, may owe less to the intellectual rigor of his works and more to their emotive resonance and their role in galvanizing political movements. Despite criticisms of the vagueness and incompleteness of his doctrines, many of Fanon’s prophecies regarding Africa have seen realization, underscoring his enduring influence on political discourse and action.