Colonization of Concept of Capitalistic Development in Post Colonial Societies

Abstract

This paper examines the capitalistic concept of development that has been taken for granted, without any prior examination and critical investigation by post-colonial societies. Capitalism is not just an economic system rather it is an encompassing system that encompasses all aspect of life. It subsumes all other orders, remold all orders and aspects of life according to its own order i.e. capitalistic order. In addition, this paper will also argues that capitalism as an encompassing and subsuming all other systems is not a-historical or natural rather it is historical and has been injected in the colonial social fabric by the western settlers. This concept of development has been developed in modern west based on a particular conception of self i.e. capitalistic self hence the article at hand will inquire the metaphysical conceptions working behind this concept of development. In due process, the article will excavate this concept of development using Gustavo Esteva and Gilles Deluze to elaborate how capitalistic conception of development de-territorialize the social space and values where it emerges and than re-territorialize them through its own prism, resulting in a dilemma of freedom and a identity crises among the individuals of the Post Colonial World.Keywords: Capitalistic Self, Development, Colonization, De-territorialization / Re-territorialization