There are ways of life outside of colonization, but politics is not one of them.
All politics is a colonialist instrument, because politics concerns the management of other people's lives. Politics is not self-management. Politics is produced by a group that considers itself enlightened and that, therefore, must be the protagonist in the lives of others.
Democracy is an eminently human thing. Other beings, other living things in the world, do not exercise this movement. They don't have lives like that. Cows, pigs, chickens, birds don't have this management structure. Their management is different.
Only humans have this structure in which one lives to manage the life of another vertically, to defend the rights of others. Among other living things, each one defends itself in a segmented way to defend the territory in an integrated way. A person, however, wants to govern 200 million other people. How could this person do it, if they don't even know two thousand people? How to govern those you don't know?
Within the animal kingdom, politics only exists in the human species. In other species, there is self-management.
Antonio Bispo dos Santos (2025) "We are sharing beings". Meiocerto edições
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