Jennifer Ponce de León & Christina Petterson, “Anticolonial Praxis vs Decolonial & PoCo Theory” 

They speak about the "inner colony" in this video?

@@Ocinneade345 Yes, there was a question, but I don't think JPL understood the question, at least not based on what she recommended as a reading source. Perhaps, inner colonialism in the sense of EC colonizing "second tier" members combined with US's imperial interest in the Balkans, with a very tiny layer of gangestrer elite and managerial class benefiting within the colonized region.

This doesn't make sense, unless you understand "inner colonialism" to mean something different from "internal colonialism", which the question and JPL's answer were about. Romania and Bulgaria are external to the US and so can't be its internal colonies, by definition. They may be colonies, semi-colonies, or neocolonies of the US, but they can't be internal colonies. As for the usefulness of an analysis of the experiences of the Black population in the USA, JPL recommended that article because it lays out some relatively well defined empirical conditions that should be met in order for a population to be considered an internal colony (in the author's opinion). Since JPL could not directly answer the question due to a lack of specific knowledge about Eastern Europe, she was suggesting a tool the questioner could use to come up with that answer for herself.

@@Dorian_sapiens yes, agreed, that's why I was confused when the question was asked, I am not familiar with the term, I guess it will make mores sense for the context of settler colonialism, like the experience of indigenous people in the Americas, or the Palestinians, etc. It does not seem to apply to the context of the Balkans. But this concept also seems to be something similar to Gramsci's analysis of uneven development in Italy - the North exploiting the South and what can be called colonization of the mind with the explanation of economic backwardness with "cultural traits". Anticommunism as a mechanism of US hegemony (or at least attempts at such) is an aspect of the colonization of the mind. The model is: the reason for economic (and all other disastrous consequences resulting from it) is not the political-economy of global capitalism, not a pariah status in the EU, as a US protectorate or banana republic if you will, in a global capitalist system, but the past, the socialist state, which of course is "totalitarian". We see how armies of NGOs and think tanks serve to provide such explanations, but also when soft power is exhausted, foment revolutions under directives from the repressive apparatuses - CIA, MI6, etc.