Philosophical and ethnic dichotomies in the fight for decolonization

Abstract

Social movements and natives will lack transforming force, as long as they don’t challenge the anthropocentric view and the essential dichotomies that support the system in power.  They should propose themselves a true deconstruction and reconstruction of the philosophy that has up to now permitted colonization, recovering the native philosophical bases, in their quality of different-similar to the hegemonic vision, with their own knowledge generating science, and not that of « local knowledge».  The native cultural tradition is an alternative lifestyle to that other which is hegemonic, that  all who feel the demand to decolonize ourseleves can adopt, without ethnic discriminations, and without, because of it,  generate dichotomies between native  and  western.  The condition to eradicate the hegemonies is to assume the difference-resemblance as the basis for the relations with other individuals, other cultures and the totality of the cosmic and natural beings, and as expression of a paradigm that does not admit centrisms neither hierarchies of any class.  Therefore, it rejects the relations of domination/subordination and admits living  in equilibrium, complement action, consensus and respect to the identity of the other, whom by no means is antagonistic tous.