Colonial academics self-censor conclusions that would indict colonialist capitalism

Evidence

So our Gourou chooses to back off and refrain from specifying that, if the dilemma exists, it exists only within the framework of the existing regime; that if this paradox constitutes an iron law, it is only the iron law of colonialist capitalism, therefore of a society that is not only perishable but already in the process of perishing. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 138

Categorization

• XREF: Previews the later Islamophobia reading on how scholars internalize the limits of acceptable critique — ‘common sense’ boundary policing within academic production. — connects to: Colonial historiography inherited administrative map distinctions its practice violated; Colonial moral epithets encoded specific class and racial transgressions; The Institute strategically self-censored Marxist vocabulary for American funders (+4 more)
• DEFINE: Shows Césaire defining the ironic, contradictory position of the colonial intellectual who sees clearly but draws back from the systemic conclusion — a schema for analyzing ‘enlightened’ colonial/Saidian scholarship.

Broader Connections

• Colonial historiography inherited administrative map distinctions its practice violated #corroborates (0.80)
• Colonial moral epithets encoded specific class and racial transgressions #corroborates (0.72)