What Is Anti-Imperialism?

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As we learned before, social theory is knowledge coming directly from elite oppressors in the empire era that did not take into consideration the voice of the people being oppressed. Rather, it gives voice to the oppressors and at the same time transforms them into heroic beings for conquering savages and turning them into obedient tools of labor or slaves. Another detail that we have to remember, is that the privileged classes created information or sociology to keep the lower classes from revolting. On the other hand, postcolonial thought is anti-imperial, comes from the marginalized and exposes the consequences of external control and economic exploitation of native people and their lands. This book gives its reader two options; either to

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