These concepts, both in abstract and under colonial realities, are the root of the noble, innocent-as-oppressed character, from the savages of Rousseau through the proletariat of Karl Marx to the minority identities of Woke Marxists. They are the innocents before the Fall of Man, which for Marx arrived with the invention of private property and the division of labor and for the radical postcolonialists came in with the establishment of European civilization as “civilization” itself.
