Colonial refusal

Pynchon on colonial refusal, the zerodeath among the Herero:

A generation earlier, the declining number of live Herero births was a topic of medical interest throughout southern Africa. The whites looked on anxiously as they would have at an outbreak of rinderpest among the cattle. How provoking, to watch one's subject population dwindling like this, year after year. What's a colony without its dusky natives? Where's teh fun if they're all going to die off? Just a big hunk of desert, no more maids, no field-hands, no laborers for the construction or the mining--wait, wait a minute there, yes it's Karl Marx, that sly old racist skipping away with his teeth together and his eyebrows up trying to make believe its nothing but Cheap Labor and Overseas Markets. Oh, no. Colonies are much, much more. Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own shit (317).

Tribal death or Christian death...Hereros choose refusal.