Colonialism operates as a total system, not a matter of individual colonist goodwill.

Evidence

Tempels approach to colonialism reflects what Jean Paul Sartre called “neocolonialist mystification,” the illusory thought that “there are some good colonists and some very wicked ones, and that it is the fault of the latter that the situation of the colonies has deteriorated.” But colonialism, as Sartre pointed out, is first and foremost a coherent “system” with an inescapable inner logic, a system of economic exploitation that requires political domination, military oppression, cultural alienation and spiritual dehumanization via racism and all manners of intellectual epistemic violence, chief among them the philosophically and scientifically manufactured “hierarchy” of races and religions which justifies the ideology of “developing” or “uplifting the low races” via a civilizing mission. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 737

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines Sartre’s ‘neocolonialist mystification’ — the illusion that only ‘wicked’ colonists cause colonial harm, while the system itself is structurally exploitative.
• XREF: Echoes Frantz Fanon’s ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ and Aimé Césaire’s ‘Discourse on Colonialism’ on the systemic rather than individual character of colonial violence. — connects to: Settler-colonial elimination is a permanent structural principle, not a one-time event. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 543