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Oswald de Andrade’s “Cannnibal Manifesto” (1950) was anticipative in its apprehension of the Brazilian dynamic as it emerged from its European colonial heritage projecting itself towards the future. As Brasil entered modernity, what Oswald observed was “a country of the future,” not from the perspective of the dynamic of a construction of a national trajectory of development, but from the perspective of the development of the indigenous Brazilian relation to colonial alterity. The anthropophagic revolution, as it projected the Indians into the world, rested on a theory of multiplicity and not of “diversity.” Anti-colonialism was not a form of nationalism, but a war machine which served to take what we wanted in the rich Europe.