Re: [Marxism] The Weapon of Theory - Amilcar Cabral (PAIGC)

[Baba Aye <baba.aye@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/5/25 Tom Cod <tcod@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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> Yeah, do you? maybe I'm confused but it seems you're saying that because
> "ein volk" means the people or one people in German that anyone who uses the
> latter term is somehow fascist like?  kinda facile isn't it?  No, the Nazis
> used that term in a particular way, surely those who also use that term in
> its common meaning, are not, without more, using it as a fascist term of art
> (Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer!:  One People, One Empire, One Leader!)
> oriented around imperialist aggression and genocide.  Maybe you can explain
> to us, how, if you think that, Cabral's ideas are, in any material sense,
> akin to Hitler's.
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When any activist-thinker's thoughts and practice are shorn of their
context, we often leads tos such nonsense as that which equates Cabral's
conceptualization of 'a people' to Hitler's fascistic mobilization on the
platform of 'die volk'.  It would be similar to asserting that Bakunin's
anarchist formulations and that of agorists like Conger amount to the same
thing.
Cabral, was an anti-imperialist, who was greatly influenced by Marxist
thoughts as were Nkrumah and Lumumba for example. That his theory was
not *stricto
senso* Marxist, does not in the least erode from his critical contribution
to socialist theorizing on the African continent and more importantly to the
practice of emancipatory struggles that activists in Africa have had to
wage, first (and in Cabral's Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, strictly as)
against colonialism and now as neo-colonial imperialism.
In the spirit of the Africa Day, I would think, Onoge's analysis of
Nkrumah's views on the class struggle would as well be apt, for situating
the point of departure of those like him and Cabral that in their own
different ways sort to grapple with 'the blackman's burden':

http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/African%20Journals/pdfs/Utafiti/vol3no1/aejp003001005.pdf

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Baba Aye

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"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the
point is to change it." - Karl Marx (1845),
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