anticolonialism
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To that end, both within and beyond the movement known as Liberation Theology, many Latin Catholics promote visions of solidarity, inclusion, anticolonialism and anticapitalism to increase the church’s appeal across Latin America.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
The late, Palestinian Christian-born scholar of anticolonialism wrote several influential volumes on conflicts around the world, including a memoir, “Out of Place.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2023
And about that anticolonialism business, isn't that why we, especially the Teasies among us, adore the Founding Fathers?
From Time • Mar. 10, 2011
Abroad, as his own Foreign Minister, he pursued a policy of fierce anticolonialism.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the Belt operators took advantage of the anticolonialism of the times and declared that the Belt cities were, and by right ought to be, free and independent political entities.
From Anchorite by Schelling, George Luther
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