The postcolonial is regarded in this article as a human condition of those who belong to the colonial side of modernity. Decoloniality is interpreted as a conscious choice of ones political, ethical and epistemic position. This allows for the overcoming a lack of understanding between postcolonial studies and decolonial thought. The author considers postcolonialism and decolonial option through the mediation of post-socialist optics and formulates the possible ways of building their "deep coalitions" in the future.