Criticando la decolonialidad y su crítica

Abstract

The practice of criticism is one of the main ways of refining the debates in the social sciences. In thissense, David Lehmann’s text is welcome. Nevertheless, I am not totally in agreement with various aspects of hiscriticism. I underscore, in particular, his negation of the historically objective character of racism and of itsconsequences and his lack of consideration for the complexity of the articulations within and between them thatdrive modern indigenous movements. His concepts about universalism also seem debatable. But I agree with hisopinion that there is a simplification of Western thought and modernity by decolonialists, a strong criticism alsomade in recent years by one of the founders of decolonial thought, Santiago Castro-Gómez, which I present in mytext. Finally, I show my disagreement with what I call the heuristic hypertrophy of colonialism made by decolonialistsand introduce, in addition to the coloniality of power, the notions of indigeneity, nationality, globality, andimperiality of power.