Anyone who considers Western society to be free, enlightened, and just will be astonished by the wounds that Friederike Habermann highlights: The economist, historian, and political scientist points out why Western society is based on structural violence and how the much-lauded freedom of the West is, in reality, a freedom for the conformists. Her striking critique of the invisible colonial helmets under which we continue to celebrate a colonial mindset makes it clear how the widespread delusion that Western culture is the highest stage of cultural development subtly and overtly exercises violence worldwide. She reveals the origins of competition and racism, thereby opening a perspective for overcoming exploitation and oppression and for the emancipation of the Other.