Decoloniality and transmodernity. Regarding some critics from republicanism

Abstract

This article aims to evaluate the readings that argue the decolonial perspective, in its critique of modernity and Eurocentrism, seek to embrace the particularism in Latin American cultural difference in order to recover the communal ties prior to colonization where the keys to present liberation would be found. From this perspective, decolonial theory rejects all institutional politics and aspires to strengthen oppressed communities which are articulated based on axes of oppression such as race, culture, gender, or class, thus abandoning any claim of universality, as it is considered the fundamental trait of European modernity and colonial domination. From these perspectives, they conclude that decolonial thought is incompatible with popular struggles conducted in a universal and republican framework. In response to these positions, we will seek to outline the guidelines of intercultural decolonial politics in an analytical and transmodern way that surpasses the flawed antinomy previously exposed. To this end, the political potential of the locus of enunciation of colonial difference will be highlighted as a starting point for a project to structure communities and coalitions that seek to confront multiple oppressions.