Aimé Césaire's "Discourse on Colonialism"
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- This week, I present Aimé Césaire's "Discourse on Colonialism."
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This was extremely helpful for me to understand Césaire better. Thank you for explaining it so clearly :)
5:00 I think he is also talking about Germany's Eastern expansion, which was partly inspired by US westward expansion, or Imperialism
This was a perfect analysis! Needed this for a class lol. Thank you very much :)
you’re real awesome explaining all ‘o this ánd stating some problems the text also brings forward. thank you!!
Love your videos. Keep it up!
Great video, hope you have a good holiday :)
Well done!
Could you make one video on the book Cracked Mirror an Indian Debate on theory and experience by Gopal Guru? It would be an excellent source for those who couldn't access the intricate text as such. Thanks.
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I’m studying the topic for a Baruch College class.
Super informative thanks !!
The concept of enlightenment is modern
It implies a direction, it draws an abstraction
In practical terms Europe focused in eliminating any chance of being on the oppressed side of the sum cero equation
I like looking at those specific instances through a postmodern lens
Oppression in different times is constituted in different possibility conditions
Thank you making each resource
Hello! It was an informative video. My knowledge of colonialism is very limited. Could you please tell how Aime Cesaire is different from his contemporary Thinkers of Colonialism?
Hello there!
Thanks a lot for such informative videos.
I wanted to ask about the part about Europe incarcerating and capturing ideas, where can I find sources on that?
Do you mean the exploitation of colonial subjects’ cultures etc? Because you can read about any post-colonial thinkers on that topic and certainly any material analysis of colonialism
Very interesting
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Europe was retaliating against itself. just cuz retaliation starts in a place and against a people, it doesn't mean that it's direction is not too encompass it all. if they got their lebensraum, they would grow, and thus "need" more "living space". would you expect that on random day, every European started fighting one another? easier to start with the marginalized people.
Cesaire is right about the lack and desire in the processes of colonial behaviour.
His diagnosis of Europe as a colonial monolith is problematic if not downright wrong though.
Of course, for David, Goliath was always the target.
It’s problematic in general to bracket European life as such
In the context of dehumanisation and exploitation, is it the same as some feminist theories?
Did feudalism really die out, or was it outsourced to the colonies? As the West embraced capitalism, science, free movement of labour, equality under the law - the colonies saw indentured labour, slavery, enforced religion.
In fact you could argue the outsourcing of feudalism to the colonies, was the catalyst of the West's enlightenment The need for primitive accumulation in the West surplus to requirement as a vast surplus of slavery and serfdom emerged in the colonies.
In many ways, we are still in that global feudal stage, the international order still demonstrating feudal aspects, as the powerful wealthy countries are granted special privileges, vetos, immunity from international law.
Even though capitalism now exists within most countries, feudalism has seemingly been reborn at the level of the nation state, as the lords of the global order transgress borders at will grabbing resources, and installing their vassal leaders, meanwhile the global poor are bonded to their territories to live in squalor and deprivation.
If feudalism was outsourced to the colonies, capitalism is now being outsourced to the developing world via globalization. albeit still within an international feudal matrix.
The coming decades will see a rerun of the battles played out in the West between feudalism and capitalism - played out at a global level.
In fact we are seeing this growing battle begin to form between free trade and mercantilism, democracy and authoritarianism, immigration and closed borders. multiculturalism and cultural conservatism. After all, what is racism and protectionism, but aristocratic largess disseminated down to the level of the Western masses.
Although capitalism is a destructive and malevolent force, it also has progressive elements, Progressive elements albeit fueled by greed, as capitalism will smash down all barriers to trade and free movements of labour, all age-old privileges and divine rights that stand in the way of profit.
The role of the church shouldn’t be underestimated
Cesaire mentions the church and the missionaries’ virtues of brining God’s word to the colonial subjects, albeit briefly since he focuses chiefly on the issue of proletarization of the colonized
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Europe is not a monolit, 7 countrys out of 47 countrys had colonys in other parts of the world, most of it England, Spain and Portugal. Do not put collectiv blame on the whole Europe.
When you talk about WWII then Hitler represented National Socialist Workers Parti, they were talking about German superiority above other nations. Stalin represented Parti of Kommmunistic Soviet Republic. Both Stalin and Hitler were totalitarian Marxist they wanted to colonise the Europe. They killed everybody who did not fit in ideology regaedless of their race and skin coloure.
More then 7 and the definition of marxist don't fit for one of both or neither even. Im not a huge Fan of marxism aswell but stick to facts and dont drop into undercomplex narrativs. The fact about the killing in concept of political enemy is true
@@kamisama276Nazismo , Fascismo, Socialismo e Comunismo são caras da mesma moeda do extremismo de esquerda
Colonialism, very icky, no good.
Still big ego! Can't stop watching himself instead of camera 😕