Colonial rule runs on force and manufactures a servile local elite

Evidence

Security? Culture? The rule of law? In the meantime, I look around and wherever there are colonizers and colonized face to face, I see force, brutality, cruelty, sadism, conflict, and, in a parody of education, the hasty manufacture of a few thousand subordinate functionaries, “boys,” artisans, office clerks, and interpreters necessary for the smooth operation of business. — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 50

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial filing systems themselves produced methods of domination.; Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia; Colonial occupation contests the entire country’s history and daily life — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 223 (+8 more)

Related

• Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia (similarity 0.82)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia #expands (0.82)
• Empire-created bilingual elites became the vanguard of colonial nationalism #expands (0.82)
• Colonial bureaucracies massively employed indigenes but maintained hierarchy #expands (0.80) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 490
• Colonial officials rationalized domination by claiming trusteeship over the colonized #expands (0.80)
• Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement. #expands (0.80) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82
• Colonial filing systems themselves produced methods of domination. #expands (0.78)
• Colonial occupation contests the entire country’s history and daily life #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 223
• Colonial domination is justified by inventing a dependency complex in the colonized #expands (0.75) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 149
• The British framed colonial rule as character formation rather than mere training #expands (0.75) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 527
• Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth #expands (0.72)