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rwandais (Paris: Tribord, 2004).

      38 38. Michel Foucault, Society Must be Defended, edited by Mauro Bertani and Alessandre Fontana; translated by David Macey (London: Penguin, 2003).

      39 39. ‘By reconnecting with the deep meaning of Marx’s doctrine, one should be able to recover not only the meaning of capital as a social relationship, but also as a magical relationship, the one that appears in Marx in connection with “commodity fetishism”. Considering the commodity as a fetish represents a truly revolutionary approach as it gives this representation the truly anthropological dimension of witchcraft, itself seen as a belief system. Seeing the commodity as a fetish involves considering the commodity as an idol, a kind of Golden Calf to which we sacrifice’ (Jean-Loup Amselle, L’Anthropologue et le Politique [Paris: Lignes, 2012], pp. 104–5).

      40 40. See Luis Martínez Andrade, ‘Le capitalisme comme religion: la théologie de la libération au tournant décolonial’, in Ali and Dayan-Herzbrun (eds), Pluriversalisme décolonial, pp. 92–3.

      41 41. Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000).

      42 42. Souleymane Bachir Diagne, ‘Du mouvement vers l’universel’, de(s)générations, no. 22: ‘Penser avec l’Afrique’, 2015, pp. 25–6.

      43 43. Diagne, ‘Du mouvement vers l’universel’.

      44 44. Jean-Loup Amselle, ‘De la déconstruction de l’ethnie au branchement des cultures’, Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, no. 185, 2010, pp. 96–113.

      45 45. Indigènes de la République (Indigenous of the Republic) is the name of an anti-imperialist and anti-racist French political party. (Translator’s note.)