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Protestation (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 21 hours ago by protestation@discuss.tchncs.de to c/communism@lemmy.ml

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[–] Juice@midwest.social 7 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Does anyone know of any legitimate criticisms of Sankara? Or even illegitimate ones that can be disproven? My exposure to him is fairly minimal, but everything ive heard about him is just over the top positive.

I'm not trying to cut down decolonizers either, but often criticisms are reflective of the material obstacles and struggles that a leader or movement faced. I'm sure there are some good histories out there and I would take any recommendations people have. But just given my own nature, ive found I can get into a particular history better by starting with the negative.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

He (and his government) were accused of arresting political opponents, putting political opponents through show trials, requiring people to prove their innocence when on trial, not allowing defendants to be represented by counsel, and of issuing summary punishments to some groups of protestors.

In a brief search, I could confirm arresting political opponents (not speaking to whether there was cause), and denying defendants a lawyer (not illegal in Burkina Faso, just "against international standards").

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 10 points 12 hours ago

Had he survived, he would have had to struggle against counter-revolutionaries, resulting in similar allegations of authoritarianism that other AES leaders that do survive go through.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Religious intolerance?

Religion relies on hierarchies, he opposed hierarchies.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 hours ago

He was big into Ubuntu (the philosophy, not the distro) wasn't he? My limited understanding is that it goes hand in hand with liberation theology.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Best I can do is Coca Cola for like 50% of people.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

Thesis: Water

Antithesis: Champagne

Synthesis:

[–] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 3 points 13 hours ago

Lmfao

[–] durably465@lemmy.ml 6 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Why not champagne for all?

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 2 points 14 hours ago

If champagne were available for all, nobody would want it

[–] Eq0@literature.cafe 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Because of limited resources, that’s unlikely to be possible

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Ok, then I suppose they can have cake instead.

[–] ferret@hub.workersofthe.world 3 points 20 hours ago

@durably465 because it's haram