According to the journalist Sennen Andriamirado, who wrote two early books on Sankara, the Burkinabè leader believed that “Stalin killed Leninism by stifling the soviets and making all-powerful the Cheka [secret police], the military,” and other repressive bodies.
Hmm, I wonder if protecting the socialist leadership was a factor in this. Too bad he got assassinated, proving that using state power to oppose the reactionary forces is critically important in a nascent socialist state.
Uhhh… no? Historically speaking, there were societies that took care of everyone. Plus, the desire for egalitarianism has existed for quite a long time. Just because I don’t agree with some historical white leader, doesn’t mean that I only like leftists who got killed.
Not sure if this is a joke because if you exclude China from the data, world poverty has actually gotten worse in the last 40 years. They are singlehandedly dragging that world average upwards.
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Hmm, I wonder if protecting the socialist leadership was a factor in this. Too bad he got assassinated, proving that using state power to oppose the reactionary forces is critically important in a nascent socialist state.
Why don’t you just come out and admit you only like leftist leaders who get killed before they can do much, that’s clearly what you think
Uhhh… no? Historically speaking, there were societies that took care of everyone. Plus, the desire for egalitarianism has existed for quite a long time. Just because I don’t agree with some historical white leader, doesn’t mean that I only like leftists who got killed.
The majority of people who lived in Eastern European socialism regret its fall. The USSR had no colonies, it was an anti-imperialist, de-colonial federation. Sankara learned from Stalin, and was a Marxist-Leninist. Finally, equating Hitler and Stalin equates fascism with socialism, which originated as a form of Holocaust trivialization called Double Genocide Theory. I recommend reading Domenico Losurdo’s Towards a Critique of the Category of Totalitarianism.
That’s cool that being nice is the ceiling of revolutionary possibility in your brutally constrained mind, but the Chinese Communists did this:
Capitalist apologists: see how we reduced world poverty? /s
Not sure if this is a joke because if you exclude China from the data, world poverty has actually gotten worse in the last 40 years. They are singlehandedly dragging that world average upwards.
Good context. That’s why I added the /s