Postcolonial nations replicated totalitarian single-root thinking rather than relation to the Other

Evidence

The reason for our return to this episode in Western history is that it spread throughout the world. The mode! came in handy. Most of the nations that gained heedom from colonization have tended to form around an idea of power·-the totalitarian drive of a single, unique rootrather than around a fundamental relationship with the Other. Culture’s self-conception was dualistic, pitting citizen against barbarian. Nothing has ever more solidly opposed the thought of errantry than this period in human history when Western nations were established and then made their impact on the wodd. — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 129

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to the reader’s strategic-essentialism question: nations freed from colonization adopting a single-root model is an empirical case where collective identity hardened into genuine (non-ironic) essentialism. Pairs with Spivak’s worry about strategic essentialism collapsing into residence. — connects to: Decoloniality rejects postcolonialism for complicity in Western universalist thinking — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 267; Totalitarian rulers subordinate state, nation, and even self-interest to the movement’s fictitious future — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 927; Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country (+2 more)
• ADDENDUM: The single-root vs. relationship-with-Other dichotomy parallels the grafting/roots infrastructure article’s concern with root metaphors as worldbuilding.

Broader Connections

• Totalitarian rulers subordinate state, nation, and even self-interest to the movement’s fictitious future #expands (0.85) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 927
• Decoloniality rejects postcolonialism for complicity in Western universalist thinking #corroborates (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 267
• Colonialism can be internally duplicated within a colonized country #expands (0.80)
• Imperial racism and bureaucracy supply the elements of totalitarian rule #expands (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 567
• Imperialism’s global politics supplied the preconditions for totalitarian rule #expands (0.75)