How Shall Africa Be Saved?

Oregon Magazine ^ | August 1, 2002 | Larry Leonard

[WaterDragon]

(snip)...His name is Dr. George Ayittey....an African, from Ghana, who at present is an economist at American University and the president of Free Africa Foundation, a D.C. think tank...(snip)

You see, Mr. Ayittey said that of Africa's [I think he said] 56 nations, only 15 were democracies. Then, he said that Zimbabwe was collapsing because of the recent elections there were fraudulent without any help from the CIA, and kept in office a monstrous dictator who supported the rape of the nation's agricultural community.

Then he said that the other African nations, all run by black or Semitic [Arab] people, should be ashamed of themselves for keeping silent about it. Then he said that there is no reason why the West should give money to any African nation...(snip)

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[jjm2111]

It seems Marxism is alive and well.

Do you know the difference between a Marxist, a Leninist, a Trotskyite, and a Stalinist? Can these terms be used terchangably?

[Aric2000]

ROFLMAO!!

Good enough!! I will take your advice to heart, thank you for the literary editorial, greatly appreciated!!

[Fzob]

Do you know the difference between a Marxist, a Leninist, a Trotskyite, and a Stalinist? Can these terms be used terchangably?

Of course not, I was using the term in a very broad sense.

Why do you ask? Why do you care?

[jjm2111]

I was just curious. I've read politics for a couple of years now, and I thought it was all the same thing. However, when Le Pen was running the papers mentioned Trotskyite candidates. Mugabe is a Marxist.

[WaterDragon]

The different socialists you list consider themselves different only in strategies for achieving the same thing -- Communism. Some believe in violence, some in manipulation, etc. Weird people who still hang onto their utopian la-la-land ideas. But truly it is finally on its last legs.