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Colonialism

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Colonialism is the practice of extending and maintaining political, social, economic and cultural domination over a territory and its people by another people, in pursuit of interests defined in an often distant metropole whose agents also claim superiority. Colonialism functions by differentiating the targeted land and people from the colonizers, and rather than outright annexation it typically culminates in organizing the colonized into colonies kept separate from the colonizers' own metropole; it can deepen into settler colonialism, in which settlers from one or more colonizing metropoles occupy a territory with the intention of partially or completely supplanting the existing indigenous peoples. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Source Wikipedia: Anibal Quijano
Source Harry Magdoff (Wikipedia)
Source Rosa Luxemburg (Wikipedia)
Source Wikipedia: W. E. B. Du Bois
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Source New World Encyclopedia: ColonialismArticle text
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European colonialism began in the fifteenth century, with Portugal 's conquest of Ceuta.
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Colonialism (Wikipedia)
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Colonialism is the practice of extending and maintaining political, social, economic, and cultural domination over a territory and its people by another people in pursuit of interests defined in an often distant metropole, who also claim superiority.
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Rosa Luxemburg (Wikipedia)
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She displayed a notable "anthropological sensitivity", detailing the destruction of the English peasantry, Native Americans, and enslaved Africans, as well as the effects of British colonialism in India and China, and French colonialism in Algeria.
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Harry Magdoff (Wikipedia)
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Under Magdoff's direction, the Monthly Review increasing focused on imperialism as the key unit of analysis for global development and the forces challenging neocolonialism in the Third World.
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Wikipedia: W. E. B. Du Bois
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Du Bois viewed Japanese colonialism in Manchuria as benevolent; he wrote that "colonial enterprise by a colored nation need not imply the caste, exploitation and subjection which it has always implied in the case of white Europe.
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Wikipedia: Anibal Quijano
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Aníbal Quijano (17 November 1930-31 May 2018) was a Peruvian sociologist and humanist thinker, known for having developed the concepts of "coloniality of power" and "coloniality of knowledge".
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Frantz Fanon (Wikipedia)
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Frantz Omar Fanon (, US: ; French: [fʁɑ̃ts fanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925-6 December 1961) was a French psychiatrist and political philosopher, who made critical contributions to the fields of post-colonial studies and critical theory.
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Che Guevara (Wikipedia)
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His experiences and studying of Marxism-Leninism led him to posit that the Third World's underdevelopment and dependence was an intrinsic result of imperialism, neocolonialism, and monopoly capitalism, with the only remedies being proletarian internationalism and world revolution.
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Ann Laura Stoler (Wikipedia)
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She has made significant contributions to the fields of colonial and postcolonial studies, historical anthropology, feminist theory, and affect. She is particularly known for her writings on race and sexuality in the works of French philosopher Michel Foucault.
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Michael Hechter (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationAssociated With: Michael Hechter, Internal colonialism
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Internal Colonialism: the Celtic Fringe in British National Development 1536-1966
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Mohamed Abdou (political scientist) (Wikipedia)
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Mohamed Abdou, also known as Mohamed Jean Veneuse, is a Canadian-Egyptian academic, author, and activist whose research focuses on decolonial theory, Islamic studies, anarchism, and indigenous resistance.
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Daniel Guerin (Wikipedia)
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He is also known for his opposition to Nazism, fascism, capitalism, imperialism and colonialism, in addition to his support for the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) during the Spanish Civil War.
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