Is the political inherently Western, as suggested by the etymology of the term and claimed by generations of politicians, philosophers, journalists, and historians? We are familiar with the proposition that divides people into those with and those without history. While this Eurocentric proposition is contested in many academic circles, it remains pervasive in various aspects of life, including news reporting, policy-making, travelogues, movies, and other cultural vectors through which we understand the world. In this view, history is always made in the West. An aspect or manifestation of the division between people with and without history is the claim of a Western patrimony over politics and, more crucially, the political itself. There are voices who argue that if the political is the poisoned fruit of European colonial-racial worldmaking, a proper decolonial response might be to reject the political entirely. Such a conception understands the political as being an integral part of the global imposition of violent hierarchies by the West’s colonial-racial enterprise.