First, multiculturalism, despite all the wonderful feelings about cultural otherness it represents, has always been a colonial ideology, that is, not an ideology to colonise, but an ideology which has its roots in colonial culture: The way it is nice to otherness is colonial. Colonialism, as the wonderful Israeli sociologist by the name of Baruch Kimmerling, who in analysing the Israeli Palestinian question, called “Colonial Cultural Politicide”. Politicide… and politicide means that the Colonialist always aims to kill the political will of the colonised. That is, the beginning of any colonialism, the other as far as they have a political will cannot exist in the eye of the Colonialist. You have to eradicate their political will. After you eradicate their political will, their capacity to rule themselves then, if you still don’t like them you might move into genocide, as many cases in history, sort of like, it has happened. But, it is not the only alternative. After politicide, you can also use the colonised of course, there’s a whole history of exploitation, not only a history of extermination, but it is important to remember that you can only exploit the colonised after you have politicided them. You can, and here we come closer to multiculturalism, you can even love the colonised other, after you have politicided them. This is what I call – it’s a bit at the edge of theory – but I call it, colonial necrophilia: the love of the dead other. You kill the other and you love them.
