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It's more about intellectual association and use of the word. For me I have no interest in it plain and simple when it comes to crafting a future proof radical language. The thing about inferiority complexes is-as Ted said-it's embedded within leftist humanist oversocialized ideology. I don't think it's a simple matter of bad apple radicals. The inferiority complex flows from the structure of leftism and humanism itself and Maoism, in acute and structural form, is one of the more hideous consequences of this way of thinking.

It's really about deselecting the emphasis on colonialism and colonization, for a better discourse going forward in my view. There are alternatives to people like Zinn(see Thaddeus Russell who is not of an orthodox 1968 leftist mindset). I think his book 'Renegade History of US' is far more pertinent in that it deals with historical insurgent subjectivities that interest me more and there is no guilt, resentment or binary struggle that comes from that book.

Colonialism as an emphasis makes less and less sense in an emergent multicultural society that fades away from new deal conditions and begins to look more like the 19th century in terms of problems. It also wasn't the only factor in the rise of modern machinological society.