Practice, Power, and Forms of Life by Terry Pinkard;

Author:Terry Pinkard; [Pinkard, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PHI000000 Philosophy / General, PHI006000 Philosophy / Movements / Existentialism, PHI026000 Philosophy / Criticism, PHI016000 Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

9. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Colonialism, Racism

Crucially, Sartre also claims in several places that even in its standard “bourgeois” interpretation, “liberty, equality, and fraternity” could not possibly consistently justify or legitimate the “super-exploitation” of the indigenous peoples practiced by European colonialism. Colonialism as practiced in the heyday of European imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is and always was simply beyond the pale of justifiability. Racism, on Sartre’s account, is the nonsense ideology that emerged in the impossible attempt to make the super-exploitation of the colonized by the colonialists seem like something innocuous or destined in the “civilizing mission” to work to the good of the colonized. The “thoughts” involved in racism and colonialism are fabricated in a fact-free, illogical dreamworld that is put forth as if it were the real world but is really just an illusory story that hides the brutality of the real world the colonists have created. Sartre puts this rather strongly:

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