Term:pronounced endocolonialism
- pronounced [L] pronounced endocolonialism 1-1-1
Definitions[edit]
- A process of one population extending to another area and expanding over another population in order to deprive it of the land it lives on, its ability to form a sovereign government without becoming a layer of second-class citizens, or its ability to live and reproduce as opposed to being wholly exterminated, which happens all on the same continent and takes place wholly inside a single national population instead of across nation-states.
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- endocolonialism
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- English
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- colonialism
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- neocolonialism (exocolonialism)
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- represented by form [Form]
- endocolonialism
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- noun (N)
Usage notes[edit]
The concept of "colonialism" referring to processes that take place inside a country rather than destructive interactions from one country or tribal population to another is relatively frowned on within meta-Marxist frameworks. This usage dispute is not really over historical events and which material acts of racism happened; First World empires can commit great destruction on other populations in the act of becoming countries, and this is indisputable. The problem specifically comes up in the way anarchist-leaning frameworks often seem to be using the term "colonialism" to smuggle in theories of causation about how empire, genocide, and imperial colonies on other continents ultimately happened. A center-Liberal will say "what the United States did to Native Americans was barbaric; colonialism is bad" and an anarchist will nod and say "colonialism is bad" while adding a silent "I think colonialism is the prejudices people have in their minds, and we are all obligated to try to change people's minds, culture, and thinking even if that is utterly impossible". This statement will then go unchallenged by the Liberal-republicans, who will proceed to "let" the anarchists propose any number of anti-discrimination laws which mandate behavior that outwardly appears less prejudiced but which may not actually improve the day-to-day safety of anarchists or minorities and may ultimately achieve little more than making Tories angry. The crux of this problem is that anarchists and Liberal-republicans both believe in Idealism and ultimately have similar models of behavior and morality to the point that a policy an anarchist assumes is radical to a Liberal-republican may not be anything new at all. The goal of trying to get people to stop talking about "colonialism" inside countries is to try to smash Idealism, so that the word "colonialism" cannot be conflated with ideas and attitudes, and that people are hopefully forced to only group the world "colonialism" with material processes which assemble material objects that carry out what would be considered colonialism or imperialism in the context of an empire on another continent. ("Colonialism? Those are just attitudes.") If people use the word "colonialism" in reference to attitudes or culture inside an external colony, that is not desirable, but given that this framing could contribute to productive national independence struggles it is far less harmful and far more acceptable than when people do it in reference to ideas and attitudes inside a country. The preferred meta-Marxist usage is to use unique terms such as "internalized racism" or "alterity" rather than to imply these things can also be called "colonialism".
With this said, newly-coined compound words such as "endocolonialism" may be used specifically to probe strange uses of terminology within Liberal-republicanism and anarchism. If an anarchist speaks of "colonialism" inside the United States in the twenty-first century instead of literally in Palestine or in direct interactions of the United States and Israel, it is now "endocolonialism", while the active process carrying on into Palestine is "exocolonialism". From here it is possible to ask: what is endocolonialism? Is endocolonialism a bunch of individual people's thoughts? Is endocolonialism the literal material process of structural racism, which on the surface would seem to fit the most obvious definitions better? Does redlining directly cause Israel? If not, what material process inside the country could qualify as endocolonialism and also lead up to Israel? Questions like these can help to separate out possible Materialist explanations of empire from naïve Idealist explanations.
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