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Can someone who is familiar with Said tell me what was his general view of history? My impression (and I could be mistaken) is that according to postcolonial theory, the world was a quite wonderful place until Western imperialism came along. Is that what Said believed?

Or was he closer to the view of both Marxism and liberalism that imperialism and societal oppression started at least as early as the development of civilization as such many thousands of years earlier? Or perhaps some third view.