Ah.

Most people here(even the ones shilling communism over capitalism) would probably be shot.

15th of October 2019 marks the 36th anniversary of the assassination of Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of ex-French colony of Upper Volta, renamed by him to Burkina Faso, "the land of incorruptibles". Easily one of the best leaders in Africa's history.

I try to give credit and respect where it's due, especially since I constantly find myself remembering the lyric to Marcel Cartier's song on Sankara; 'Standing Upright'. It goes: "is a country really free just because it has a coat of arms, a national anthem and a flag?". The answer was, is and always will be "no".

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara (1949 - 1987) was a Marxist, pan-Africanist, often called 'Africa's Che Guevara', having drawn inspiration from the Argentine revolutionary. His foreign policies were centered on anti-imperialism, rejection of the influence of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank on Burkina Faso, but also social, ecological and economic change. I will not do a long write-up on him; most wouldn't even read it. Instead, I will let his achievements and the way he lived his life speak for him.

- He vaccinated 2.5 million children against meningitis, yellow fever and measles in a matter of weeks.
- He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.
- He planted over 10 million trees to prevent desertification.
- He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid.
- He outlawed female genital mutilation, forced marriages and polygamy in support of women’s rights.
- He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers.
- He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets.
- He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants. Wheat production rose in three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient.
- He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”
- He spoke in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist penetration of Africa through Western trade and finance.

Massive effort post on Sankara by a m8

I showed your mom my saints row @Mankn II

Seems like a cool guy

@Crusader :I

Nigga

@Crusader was saying earlyier, is it a mocking or you're actually interested in the historical figure?

That server in <#542297467526578217> sounds like pure cringe

What about NazBols

@yagi @The Desert Fox V capitalism if ripped from the actual social context would be fitted best in some form of slavery or something that exploits the human at maximum. As I said, only the social context makes capitalism seem so good and nice and no better than communism.

Also, communism is materialism at its best

Just as capitalism ofc

But a little bit more aggresive

@Traveler it's decent tbh, good shitposting

Commies see the answer only in power

The man must have supreme power, therefore the anti religious character of communism

i didn't claim that capitalism was good in any way

i find it less worse than communism though

You find it like that because, as I said it seems good in the actual context

The ideology itself is not very welcomy if it would be let to evolve as communism did

That's also true, but you have to see things in their context too to understand them fully

That's one important aspect

Yes it is

But the context changes frequently

And thats a problem

Take the beginning of the 20th century as an example

One of the good examples would be the UK

And the workers in the factories

There was a big attraction towards communism and not because they were having a good life at that moment

I'm not saying that communism was better

But they knew what to say to atract the workers

It did give the impression to

That's what communism is fueled with

One could say that with fascist regimes too, except they actually were efficient

Off to the gym I go

rape statists and urbanites

the industrial society has been a disaster for the human race

That's not the line you fool.