"As revolutionaries, we don't have the right to say that we're tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We also know that when the people understand, they cannot but follow us. In any case, we, the people, have no enemies when it comes to peoples. Our only enemies are the imperialist regimes and organizations." Thomas Sankara, 1985
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you don't understand, tankie...sankara made good things, and socialism is bad, so sankara couldn't have been socialist!
They assumed you were using "Marxist" as a perjorative. Just shows how deep the anti-communist indoctrination runs.
Thomas Sankara slammed as a Marxist-Leninist
I'm not trying to be a spelling pedant, I just genuinely want to share how much joy I'm getting out of Thomas Shankara
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Your average Proletarian here knows little to nothing about Socialism, Communism, Marxism, etc; though of no fault of their own. Their class consciousness, however repressed, is still exhibited; there is just no revolutionary, especially in the far-flung isolated areas, to guide them there. So you get this, lol
Americans dont learn anything about communism. The average american would likely say that fascism is communism and oligarchy while also being dictatorship -- I believe this accounts for a large number of Americans on the two imperialist camps that have a monopoly on political narratives. Marxism is never taught to students, only those who have enough curiosity in an anti-intellectual culture will learn of it in their own pursuit. In that pursuit they must battle the waves of trotskyists, leftcomms, and ancaps who constantly distort the definition making it unlikely that they, who have not been taught how to think critically, will be able to discern which definition is correct with so many conflicting narratives. They have endless contradictions in their ideology, no coherent definitions, and a bunch of conflicting capitalist narratives competing for their limited attention.