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Originally Posted by Langalibalele  Much respect, and thanks for the praise, my sister. I am not trying to invent any new theory, yet attempting to define and clarify positions already staked out in the African liberation movement. African Internationalism is Nkrumah's Pan Africanism as articulated by the self-led African proletariat (working class revolutionary). It is Pan Africanism for the masses and has a sharper class analysis.
By African scientific socialism (okay, I was like slinging terms, but this is still accurate) you may refer to an earlier discussion where people were posting about the end of capitalism. I wrote something to the effect that we have to bring down Imperialism, it cannot just be allowed to fall because that will unleash all the forces of reaction. Not only that, but we have to destroy the economic fodder of capitalism.
That is -- in the gist of what I sed -- we must diminish the power of asset-backed paper. Not because we have paper, since we don't. But because the Imperialists will still be able to buy what they need, including armies, entire communities, etc., to hold onto power. Scientific socialism is a class state which turns society upside down and places the masses in power to destroy the ruling classes. So African scientific socialism is that same thing applied to Africa, and to African people wherever we are. But more importantly, African scientific socialism unites with other revolutionary formations and movements. Yet it claims singular leadership over the African people. In doing so, we claim leadership over the revolution in the US because the white Left is incapable of fighting racism and Imperialism, and Africans at this time have the sharpest analysis.
Uhuru, sister, hope this is clear enuf for people to understand. Sometimes my articulation leaves a lot to be desired. |
Thank you for the explanation, brother.
I understand what you are saying....
As an Nkrumahist-Toureist (obviously..lol), my understanding is that there is no such thing as African Scientific Socialism.
Let us struggle ideologically.....also.
Dialectical-materialism is the philosophy that protects and attaches the ideology to the people. We can never go wrong with dialectical materialism and historical materialism.
Both of our ideologies agree on this.
So we both understand that Socialism is not foreign to any country, for communalism is the first system of five systems, communism being the last. Is African unique to this? No.
So we both agree that Africa underwent communalism, feudalism, capitalism, then to socialism, finally communism. As all People undergo these same systems...rightly at different times, but these all come to past. And we agree on that.
We learn that Socialism is applied to different cultures and people with different civilizations. We know that there is no such thing as superior or inferior cultures nor civilizations. Why? Because all culture is culture and all civilization is civilization and there are no exceptions in truth. And we agree on that.
Kwame Nkrumah have taught us that there is no such thing as African Socialism...only Scientific Socialism. It is important that we understand this, as Nkrumahist-Toureist, so as to not exclude Africa from the Socialist/Communist world. Being
scientific allows Africans to govern Africans in an African way....under Socialism.
For example, we can accept that there is no such thing as Cuban Scientific Socialism nor Chinese Socialism. Socialism is socialism because communalism is non-foreign and all inclusive to the world of people.
Socialism requires the proletariat... Kwame tells us that the unqualified are actually qualified. For change, the intelligentsia is important, also. We should not assume if we all dropped out of institutions that we could run a government. Surely, Socialism says that "work is work." There is no superior work nor inferior work, but advancements that require rigorous study and preservation of history are very important.
Even in Dark Days in Ghana, Nkrumah tells us about all of the insurgents who ran the puppet-regime after Feb. 24, 1966....they knew nothing of politics, and even dissed the conception that that was a "coup." He argued that a "coup" is when that seizure of power is for a political reason. No, once that maniacs "secured" themselves, they ran a muck. They had no experience and no true study of government.
Even Che was a doctor.
Most of our leaders have attended some form of "higher" education. The students are the "spark" of the revolution. What mouths are more fitter to push the peoples demand? Most of us, Africans, of parents who are the proletariat and see the contradictions. The intelligentsia has connections and rights, unlike those of the proletariat. Its sad, but it is true. Even so, the students actually know how to organize.
The proletariat is to be identified and highlighted in Socialism, period. All of the work is for the proletariat...the proletariat is the most prized possession to the revolution. It is the proletariat that we are to mimic.
There is no greater force in life than the People. We all are. We just need to organize ourselves.