Title: ﻿The European conquest of the world - Global Learning
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﻿The European conquest of the world
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Content: It prevents us from seeing fundamental historical facts and from understanding contemporary realities. It is not simply a matter of a difference in perspectives. It is a question of one perspective that cannot see important components of the human condition, giving rise to partial and limited understandings of a wide variety of social issues; and another perspective that addresses relevant questions and that formulates an informed understanding. It is a question of a legitimating and distorting ideology as against a scientific understanding. It is a question of a Eurocentric understanding as against a universal understanding. The Third World perspective, tied to emancipatory movements, is the most advanced understanding of which the human species is capable at this stage in its development
Even the European Left suffers from Eurocentrism. When we formulate issues in the historical and social context of Europe or the United States, ignoring issues and frames that are emerging in the Third World, this is a form of ethnocentrism. When we treat the history of popular struggles primarily in the context of Europe and the United States, and pay little attention to the various popular revolutions that have been unfolding in the Third World, we are thinking in a Eurocentric way. If we study Marx and Lenin;