>Thomas Sankara
>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 appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.
>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.
Thomas Sankara
>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.
>He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country).
>He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects.
>He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.
>As President, he lowered his salary to $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer.
>A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard.
>He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. (The reason being to rely upon local industry and identity rather than foreign industry and identity)
>When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.”
>An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself
>all that in 4 years
Was he based Jow Forums?
Sounds like a principled socialist, probably the best leader an African could hope for.
"He who feeds you, controls you"
Wtf this nigger was based???
>Be good African leader
>Die
What did CIA mean by this?
infinitely based
they used to call him the african che guevara.
>He initiated a nation-wide literacy campaign, increasing the literacy rate from 13% in 1983 to 73% in 1987.
>He built roads and a railway to tie the nation together, without foreign aid
>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.
The rest, I don't doubt, but these 3 points look too good to be true. What's the source?
I think the French killed him.
A nigger with a brain, we are in a paradox here
He was probably one of the only good African leaders in Africa. You could only imagine if all the countries in Africa had intelligence, compassion, and nationality like Sankara, Africa would be a superpower.
He was fucking based, no matter what your opinion is about socialism.
>Thomas Sankara
>Wiki name
>Marxist Pan-Africanist
Nope.jpg
This. With guys like him, Africa would be waya better
>An accomplished guitarist, he wrote the new national anthem himself
Was going fine up to here. This is just grandstanding. Places everything else under suspicion.
I have this book user. Not exactly what you're looking for but I can post passages from it
Basically NatSoc. So definitely.
Same difference.
Daily reminder that Fascist/NatSoc leaders save countries.
Hitler was a "Marxist Pan-Europeanist" in his own way. He just had the romantic vision of Fascism behind him.
Wrote a paper on him in college. Was breddy gud
Since the CIA was (and still is) stealing colonies and resources from Europe at the time, yeah there's a big difference.
Absolutely
Looks very NatSoc to me. If this is true, then yes, he would be based. Every country should be proud of itself and should strive for independence from outside forces, enabling its citizens to a better version of themselves. What I don't understand is, wasn't there a civil war or something in Burkina Faso? Isn't it a shithole?
Was he in Gaddaffi's club?
Yes. And redpilled. So they killed him.
Yeah, but most importantly, he lost.
The best reason to study Hitler, it to avoid his failures, which were manifold.
This. The same EU dick that leftypol always has its lips wrapped around is attached to the guys who murdered Sankara.
Keep being useful idiots, pinkos.
The French overthrew him by supporting a coup.
Who cares about niggers
Why don't these leftists understand that globalism is just Neo-Liberal Imperialism?
Why that white man has black skin?
he was killed by international banks after repeatedly refusing to accept loans
his successor immediately took loans and the whole thing went to shit shortly thereafter
today is just another random shithole
>The best reason to study Hitler, it to avoid his failures, which were manifold.
OLIVER CROMWELL
Based nigger
He was, the problem is without him the socialistic society he created crumbled.
>He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt.
Didn’t need to read any further to know how the story ends.
>Thomas Sankara
>Assassinated: 15 October 1987
dam what a bummer, seems like he was making it work.
In wikipedia it says he is a Marxist, but what's written seems pretty NatSoc. I'm watching a video of his speeches, and he seems to be a Marxist or at least something like it. At least to the public, but his ideas are not globalist and he doesn't speak about equality, he speaks about modernization and improvement and buying local. This is weird to me.
Nationalism works, when you know what you fight for.
Did he nationalize the banks?
How did he get off the debts?
Military in what ways?
Or maybe his successor needed to take out loans because Sankara drained the country's treasuries for his touchy-feely social programs. Look at all the socialist countries that haven't been overthrown in Africa (like Zimbabwe) to get an idea of how this would have panned out over the long run.
>inb4 evil sanctions
Who the hell would want to invest in a country that is directly opposed to the economic system you're using to give them money?
If the things you claim he did actually happened, then he was truly a great man. A real statesman, and the sort of man western politicians should all aspire to be. His nation was lucky to have had him.
China still sells capitalistic Imperialism under Communism.
When Nationalism fails, this is what happens...
big if true
Marxist dictartorship is potentially the GOAT form of government, so long that the dictator is a good dude that knows what he is doing and isnt corrupt. Problem is, thats rarely the case, and even if it is is the successor will likely suck.
The people who killed him were globalists. You misread my statement. I researched him in University. The IMF and the French government have fingerprints all over his assassination.
Are you nuts?
A lot of niggers travelled the world to study
I remember an anthropologist who interviewed a freedom fighter in East Congo. You wouldn't believe how based he was and how educated. He could lecture at uni better than professors
No. Just regular Haiti style black country bullshit.
The only country that works in West Africa is Ghana and that's because of oil. And they do what white bankers and white men tell them.
Maybe, maybe not.
Landlocked third world country. I doubt the banks would really care. Loans to build infrastructure for capital city?
So what was the deal about him? Is the wikipedia article correct?
Well, if the government still owns the central bank and banks, it does not matter too much.
Most idiotic idea is to remove capital though...
Why are you still relying on wikipedia ffs. It's one thing to get deceived by liberal universities, it's another thing to get deceived by publically sourced superficial knowledge
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I hate how you people are entrenched in semantics. As soon as the word "Marxism" or "socialism" is suggested, you all get allergy.
The red pill here is that there are good leaders and bad leaders.
Sankara is not Stalin.
He proves things can be done with some brain...
Same goes for Lumuba and other based African leaders.
All of them killed by CIA kikes... So who's the real socialist? The African Marxist or the CIA nigger who disposed of him because he was not falling in line with the globalist agenda.
Meditate, user. Meditate more.
>four bikes
Study does not mean overall that you are smarter afterwards.
Capital doesn't really matter too much imo. According to MMT, as long as a state can exercise its sovereignty it can print money at will.
Still a nigger.
Looks more like National Socialist to me imho
Africa sends away their outliers who end up marrying white or non-African women and have western kids who want to become rappers or actors.
The third world elite can't run countries. They study in other countries, lost touch with the home countries, and at the end of the day don't fix a thing.
They could be smart but can't organize their people or people in general like whites can. Usually not enough of them. And they usually want to live in the West.
yes
For basic technology yes, but on complicated stuff it breaks apart.
Cant teach an engineer without capital to make complex stuff.
Nah, their socialisation is like shit.
Guess who controls that socialisation...
That's because you fags think that communism is all about empty words like "equality" and "freedom" and what have you when Marx preached the exact opposite to the utopian socialists in his time.
Read "Critique of the Goth Program"
This shit right here sets him apart.
>He opposed foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.”
No, but believe me some people in Africa are very based.
I am not falling for the
Education = IQ
But if you study African history, you will realise it is full of based people... But with little resources
based guy yeah.
Communism means exactly bullshit words and a replacement of the existing oligarchs with the inner members of the new communist party. Give me a break commie, there is nothing worse than communism as far as political systems go. Even capitalism is better.
Marx never got technology and complexity.
That is why the hole thing crashed perpetualy, because that smart people will always find a way to outsmart/bribe the others.
Even those, who shall control them.
>asking for historical sources in regards to a popular socialist
you'll find absolute proof of a god before you find sources to back up these claims.
99% of third world Marxist and Socialists are crooks.
They all start off with promises and "reforms" but it all eventually degenerates into Cuba and Venezuela.
The fucker on the left was the darling of the American left until shit hit the fan. Maduro is now a fucking joke and Chinese puppet.
So did /leftpol/ trickle in here too as well as 8 Jow Forums niggers when 8ch died? Interesting, looks like we're gonna have some fantastic arguments here once more.
Communism is the reset of the system with huge number of deaths.
Better one would be to only kill the elites without abolishing capital.
>>He appointed females to high governmental positions, encouraged them to work, recruited them into the military, and granted pregnancy leave during education.
No, he wasn't based.
Females should not be in any position of authority, especially not at the governmental level.
Well National Socialism has left parts regarding social spending in it...
>Communism is the reset of the system with huge number of deaths.
No, it is not. It is a replacement of the elites. Same bullshit, just more extreme.
Fucking frenches, man.
The red pill is that socialist have a habit of prioritising control of institutions dedicated to the creation and collection of information.
When you read something too good to be true, it's a lie.
Yes. He did and could have done much more.
As a natsoc, I have deep respect for that man. And he payed the price, because colonialists and globalists can't have that.
An honest leader? Caring for his own? Harming their interests and giving a future to Africans, and removing the reasons for emigration to Europe?
He had to die. Such is the ugly truth of our modern times.
What do you mean by "complicated stuff"? I didn't know money made a distinction between "complicated stuff" and basic technology. Money is money. You can do whatever you want with it.
> Cant teach an engineer without capital to make complex stuff.
I don't think you're getting it. Capital derives itself from value, not the other way around. Sure, I understand that some engineers are in it for wealth but you're assuming that a government functions as a business, which it clearly does not. The government doesn't operate on an incentive to produce capital user.
Literally the greatest African leader of all time
>NatSoc
Because because people who larp as natsoc would actually be marxists if they did not have the CIA in their brains
>globalist
neither are communist ideas. globalism is specifically global capitalism which wants to create a system to more effectively exploit and profit. communists support internationalism which is effectively a sort of mutual support between socialists and socialist states towards the goal of advancing socialism.
>equality
socialist equality means equal social position. nobody thinks people are themselves equal, or that they will see equal successes and outcomes these are liberal talking points. The liberal believes legal equality is sufficient to produce equal opportunity and so that should be showing equal outcomes by now. The fact that it doesnt they now must blame on phantoms, 'racism', 'sexism', any number of excuses, because they do not want to admit that legal equality does not make an equal society, because then they would have to give up the mechanisms that keep them in power.
Socialists want an equal society in that every person within it has the same level of dignity and respect and the same opportunities. To do this you must abolish production class. Nobody rents land from another, nobody is employed by another, everything is owned communally and everyone has just as much an 'ideological' right to it (not direct control right, someone has to manage and administer a farm, but its the peoples farm in the end) as another. This produces a society where every individual has the same 'social class'. In feudalism a poor serf and a wealthy serf were still just serfs to even the poorest of noble, and that noble would have options and opportunities even the richest serf lacked. This is because they were distinct classes. This distinction was upheld by legal class distinction. That is now abolished, but production class distinction has yet to be abolished, so a businessman and a noble are now on equal footing, but not the worker
replacement with destroying everything is a reset
If Elites have too much control and fuck everything, that might be needed.
Have sex
He was incredibly based, and incredibly red pilled.
DEATH TO VIDEODROME LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH
I'm for it. Honestly it's aggravating knowing that most of you rely on wikipedia and youtube jokesters for your knowledge. I'm going to have a lot of fun here.
You can't have replacement and destruction in the same result.
You socialist are so quick to twist the meaning of words.
absolutely 100% based
He was assassinated by one of his lieutenants, on behalf of the Côte d'Ivoire, itself on the behalf of (((French))) globo-colonialists. The same I would like to hang.
Is the problem one of the dominance hierachy?
How can they be conditioned to be different?
Did he kill jews though?
>differences between the sexes are conditioned
again with the twisting of words
There is a distinction between communism and socialism, socialism is the period following a revolution in which the working class assumes control of the current capitalist state, with the goal of gradually withering away this state over time, while communism is the state that comes after it in which the means of production are owned communally by the people.
While communist parties may vary in their effectiveness and adherence to this goal, they are all effectively socialist with a stated goal of achieving communism.
No but he called for an international effort against Zionism
Ok, so National socialism wants to remove the Elite without changing the production aside of Volksgesundheit similar to the Chinese as Unilateralism.
Communism inherently needs to destroy all ways of production.
What a load of bullshit.
>globalist
neither are communist ideas. globalism is specifically global capitalism which wants to create a system to more effectively exploit and profit. communists support internationalism which is effectively a sort of mutual support between socialists and socialist states towards the goal of advancing socialism.
Just look at the hypocrisy here. You start with globalism isn't a communist idea and finish with it's a communist idea.
Then you start ranting about how things are equal in a communist state, but this is total lunacy. Equal social position. Bullshit. In any communist country you have to be in the party and you have to have commie points in order to get anywhere. This sometimes includes leaving town to live and work in another town in the same country. You don't get education if you are not sufficiently commie. As I said this is a whole load of bullshit and communism is just a revolution designed to replace the current ruling class with the commie inner party, who will eat, drink and piss on everyone as they please, because they are now the new bourgeoisie, the thing that they wanted in the first place.
Based as all fuck
"Our revolution in Burkina Faso draws on the totality of man's experiences since the first breath of humanity. We wish to be the heirs of all the revolutions of the world, of all the liberation struggles of the peoples of the Third World. We draw the lessons of the American Revolution. The French Revolution taught us the rights of man. The great October Revolution brought victory to the proletariat and made possible the realization of the Paris Commune's dreams of justice."
—Thomas Sankara, October 1984[18]