Abstract: A unifying feature of the most prominent social movements that emerged in the 2010s istheir dissatisfaction with explaining injustices on a case-by-case basis. In Canada,movements against settler colonialism express a similar orientation. This elicits a return oftotality thinking, which enables one to grasp the connections between what appears asisolated or fragmented moments that in fact constitute and are constituted by a largerwhole. Drawing on Marxist and Indigenous theorists, we reconstruct an approach tototality and a conceptualization of settler colonialism as a totality. Through an immanentreading of John Borrows’ approach to decolonization, we justify the importance of thisconcept for politicizing the persistence of unfree forms of interdependence. Finally, just asindividual struggles point toward the totality, totality thinking draws attention to theunity-in-separation of different struggles, enabling a politics of “immanent universalism” asan alternative to both abstract universalism and particularism.