It’s safe to say things are cooking in Western Africa
President Traore is very quickly becoming one of my heroes, jfc.
I think there’s good odds he becomes an outright ML with time as well, I don’t think you accidentally arrive at appointing someone as based as Tambèla he has to harbor at least some sympathies
I think he has read some theory at least, or at least is open to it. His speech in rusia had a sentence that (in my opinion) was inspired by the “no excuses for terror” marx quote.
yes I don’t think he would have selected a Marxist without being at least familiar with some of it, and the no excuse for terror quote is quite popular
He did not quote marx, but he said a sentence that resembles that quote. He said “a slave who cannot assume his own revolt does not deserve to be pitied. We do not feel sorry for ourselves, we do not ask anyone to feel sorry for us.” The last part resembles the start of the marx quote i mentioned.
But he did quote Sankara at the end of his speech so yea lol
At the moment he is not one yet, but i think there is good reason for optimism. He is still quite young, and after all, Fidel started out as just a nationalist too and eventually came to embrace socialism and specifically Marxism-Leninism because it was (and still is) objectively the best path to national liberation and to uplifting his country’s people out of poverty and underdevelopment. It is only natural that someone who starts out as a genuine patriot of a colonized country would sooner or later recognize that ML is the ideology of liberation with a worldwide anti-colonial, anti-imperialist track record.
