Pluriversalism and the Ecological Regime of Accumulation

Abstract

Jason W. Moore is a fierce polemicist and his indictment of the decolonial project associated with the Latin American “Modernity/Coloniality/Decoloniality” collective confirms his verve. His commentary on pluriversalism cannot be more straightforward. It thus deserves close reading: decolonial thinking has constructed an abstract “metaphysics of coloniality” that misses the concrete origins of the modern world-system; its romantic cult of indigenous struggles lacks the internationalism of radical emancipatory politics; “pluriversalism and its cognates” are incompatible with a history of capitalism centred on the material process of accumulation, class formation, and the plundering of nature; decolonial “linguistic acrobatics” promises war against Western knowledge, but in reality it reifies Europe and reproduces bourgeois ahistorical universalism. history of