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'''Post-colonial anarchism''' is a term used to describe ] in an ] framework. Whereas traditional anarchism arose from industrialized ]—and thus sees history from their perspective—post-colonial anarchism approaches the same principles of anarchism from the perspective of colonized peoples. It is highly critical of the contributions of the established anarchist movement, and seeks to add what it sees as a unique and important perspective. The tendency is strongly influenced by ], anti-state forms of ], and anarchism among ethnic minorities, among other sources.

The term was first coined by Roger White. Between 1994 and 2004, White wrote a series of essays reflecting on his experiences in the anarchist movement. He identifies racial isolation and ] as important features of the experience of people of color in the anarchist movement and attributes this to the prevalence European ] and an approach to ] as a binary relationship between workers and capitalists which does not take account of the cultural aspects of ].<ref name="PCA">{{cite book|last1=White|first1=Roger|title=Post Colonial Anarchism Essays on race, repression and culture in communities of color 1999–2004|publisher=Jailbreak Press|location=Oakland California|url=http://colours.mahost.org/articles/Post-Colonial%20Anarchism.pdf|access-date=9 February 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060103114336/http://colours.mahost.org/articles/Post-Colonial%20Anarchism.pdf|archive-date=3 January 2006}}</ref>

At root, the basic difference between anarchism and anti-state nationalism is that in nationalism the primary political unit is the nation, or ], whereas in an anarchist system the primary political unit is the local community or the place where labor occurs. Post-colonial anarchism is therefore clearly distinct from any form of nationalism in that it does not seek to make the nation a political unit – let alone the primary political unit. Just as social anarchists seek to create a socialist economy but oppose the tyranny of Marxist ], post-colonial anarchists oppose the tyranny of nationalism, and argue that the achievement of meaningful ] for all of the world's nations requires an anarchist political system based on local control, free federation and mutual aid.<ref>Post Colonial Anarchism, by Roger White. Anarchism, nationalism, and national liberation from an APOC perspective.</ref>

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==Further reading==
* {{cite book|last=Galián|first=Laura|year=2020|chapter=Decolonizing Anarchism|title=Colonialism, Transnationalism, and Anarchism in the South of the Mediterranean|publisher=]|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-45449-4_2|isbn=978-3-030-45449-4|pages=27–54}}
* {{cite book|last=Gordon|first=Uri|year=2016|chapter=Anarchism and multiculturalism|editor-first1=Luis|editor-last1=Cordeiro-Rodrigues|editor-first2=Marko|editor-last2=Simendic|title=Philosophies of Multiculturalism|publisher=]|pages=71–87|isbn=9781315516370|doi=10.4324/9781315516370-11|doi-broken-date=5 November 2024 }}
* {{cite book|last=Larson|first=Ole Birk|chapter=Anti-Imperialism|editor-last1=Adams|editor-first1=Matthew S.|editor-last2=Levy|editor-first2=Carl|year=2018|title=The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism|location=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-3319756196|pages=149–167|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_8|s2cid=150357033 }}
* {{cite book|last=Ramnath|first=Maia|chapter=Non-Western Anarchisms and Postcolonialism|editor-last1=Adams|editor-first1=Matthew S.|editor-last2=Levy|editor-first2=Carl|year=2018|title=The Palgrave Handbook of Anarchism|location=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-3319756196|pages=677–695|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-75620-2_38|s2cid=150357033 }}
* {{cite book|last1=Wilson|first1=Matthew|last2=Kinna|first2=Ruth|author-link2=Ruth Kinna|year=2012|chapter=Key terms|editor-last=Kinna|editor-first=Ruth|title=The Continuum Companion to Anarchism|publisher=]|isbn=978-1-4411-4270-2|pages=329-352<!--345-346-->}}

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