What about this is a “social fascism”/“labor aristocracy” thing? I can see a black woman complaining/venting about misogyny in pan-africanist spaces, which afaik is a real problem (i have about the same skin color my pfp does so i wont say anything more about that). “Id rather die under empire” is obv too extreme (tho it might well just be hyperbole) and idk if what shes saying about Nkrumah and Lulumba is true, but i dont see any kind of “fascism” here
The famous pro-patriarchy Pan-Africanist.
Sankara being one of the most based ppl ever doesnt discount anything i said. Hell, the fact he even needed to campaign and speak for for womens rights as hard as he did kinda proves how pervasive misogyny is even in otherwise progressive movements (Sankara v much acknowledged that many “revolutionary” men even in his own movement were extreme misogynists and that thats a serious problem)
Part of a thread:
You know what’s wild to me?
I used to be a leftist who was okay with authoritarianism as long as the state was purporting values that I believed were good
But thanks to anarchists I’ve seen the light
Imagine if as a leftist you didn’t have to spend so much time ignoring, minimizing and denying the brutalities of authoritarian states that purport to be communist.
Except states don’t have ideologies and beliefs. They are instruments of classes and often maintain power
Marx never considered states as instruments of classes and how “often” they maintain power.
You see, I used to be an authoritarian socialist on vibes, and now I am a libertarian socialist on vibes.
Except states don’t have ideologies and beliefs. They are instruments of classes
Amazing, lmao.
So I’m guessing they had a phase when they were 14 where they made ironic “Stalin did nothing wrong” jokes, and it made them unpopular enough that they shifted to generic western-lefto stuff instead of edgy teenage attention seeking leftism.
I can’t even fathom calling yourself a Marx-ish communist and not holding the position that states are instruments of class power, so it’s really hard to say what the starting point was.
It was someone treating leftism as a meme ideology, they called themselves a communist because they thought it would make them cool and funny and stand out, when it didn’t, they quickly folded back into more socially acceptable behaviour. It’s wearing an ideology like a new pair of Nikes. 0 understanding of it, or desire to understand the things they are saying.
“If only my oppressors were crackers”.
What an odd thing to say.
Yeah like wtf okay keeping Africa broken up into sometimes almost randomly defined post colonial regions will help all of the misogyny… how exactly
til Patrice Lumumba married a 14 year old
damn
I can’t blame someone for wanting to live in the empire instead of struggling for freedom in the periphery, it’s what I do. It’s easier to have a nice life in the place all the wealth is flowing to.
notable Sankara omission, I wonder why
