Monday, October 20, 2008

what type of system african nations need;''socialism'' or ''capitalism''

what type of system africa nations really need to get unite and put an end ot it political and economical crisis?
is it a socialism system or a capitalism?

Eye grew up hearing socialism as something evil, something dangerous. that every world socialism leaders such as ; Lenine, Ho chi Min, Mao,Fidel Castro,Hitler,General Tito, Salvador allende... and african socialist leaders such as ; where considered as dictators, and dangerous for the world, for that they were most murdered especially african socialist leaders. Some had to change their doctrine in order to survive.
and capitalism was and still is seen as something good, a hope , an opportunity where each one could fullfill his dream depending on their efforts; but the problem is that there was never an explanation why socialism was considered as a bad thing.
Was it that the capitalism bloc feared the Socialism Bloc because it was winning support all over europe and africa? afraid that it would take over America too?
if we could analize today's world new order; whom are really dictators? is it the socialist leaders or the capitalist leaders?
what is really socialism?

Socialism according to wikipedia,(the free encyclopedia);'' referes to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating social or collective ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods, and the creation of an egalitarian society where labor is the main source of wealth.

The World have had all type of socialism;most have disapearded with the fall of the Soviet Union, very few a left.

-Libertarian socialism (which includes Socialist Anarchism and Libertarian Marxism) rejects state control and ownership of the economy altogether and advocates direct collective ownership of the means of production via co-operative workers' councils and workplace democracy.

-Chinese Socialism through the Mao Ze Tong Chine's Revolution, establishing a communism state in China.

-the German Socialism ''fascist'' under Adolf Hitler.

-the North Corea Socialism.

-The Cuban Socialism lead by Fidel Castro.

-The africa Socialism embraced by most of african countries colonized by french, but also those colonized by great britain.

Julius Nyerere (Tanzania)
Amílcar Cabral (Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde)
Kenneth Kaunda (Zambia)
Modibo Keita (Mali)
Samora Machel (Mozambique)
Michel Micombero (Burundi)
Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique)
Sam Nujoma (Namibia)
Oginga Odinga (Kenya)
Didier Ratsiraka (Madagascar)
Jerry Rawlings (Ghana)
Thomas Sankara (Burkina Faso)
Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal)
Ahmed Sékou Touré (Guinea)

Leaders such as Agostinho Neto, Marien Ngouabi, Mengistu Haile Mariam, and Siad Barre, while avowed socialists, were widely considered to build their respective countries on a structure that was much more Soviet-oriented than indigenous.


-And the so called Socialsim of the 21st Century In Latin American countries,refering it politial programs as socialist, with an anti-imperialist stance, rejecting of the policies of neo-liberalism and the nationalisation or part nationalisation of oil production, land and other assets.lead by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and Bolivian President Evo Morales, still copying part of the cuban revolution program.

Karl Marx posited that socialism would be achieved via class struggle and a proletarian revolution which represents the transitional stage between capitalism and communism.

Ernesto Cheguevara whom eye consider as one of my all time favorite revolutionarist. eye even gave my first Child Jorson Che' his name, he believed that; '' it is only through a armed struggle that the third world country could free themselves from the oppression of the capitalism ideology''
but we have seen socialists leaders also comming to power without violence; leaders as salvador allende of chilli, even if he would later be killed by the militaries of his own government leaded by his one time most trusted general ''Pinochet''with the help of the CIA.


1* If eye was asked about which regimes were more authoritarians and considered as dictators, eye believe that it are the sam regimes that emerged after the Socialism administrations, which in most case were the same parties that served the african nations under African socialist programmes which did not deliver on the promises of self-sufficiency, prosperity, and equality (partly as a result of the empowerment of the governments at the expense of the people), and as a result many have grew disillusioned with African socialism.

2*This is what eye believe, and wish for africa;

Eye believe that today's world need to embrace both system. we need to combine both systems, because if we look profound socialism and capitalism goes together as republican and democrate. socialism has always been inside capitalism,every capitalism country always have to deal with socialism ( social issues) for the well being of it people.That is why the republicans accuses Barack Obama wanting to bring socialism in america,saying he wants to share wealth.
eye do admire Mr.Barack Obama,not only for being the pride of the black people, but also the newest generations all over the world, saying that the time has come for a new type of leadership, not only in america but all over the globe.
Eye to not think that he is a socialist or that he wants to bring America in that direction, but the point is that he understood that when ever the wealth of a country is only manage by a group of minority that does not even represent one third of the population, this brings separation, division, egoism, in the country.if capitalist only concentrate it power and wealth among a small group of opportunists individuals who control the capitals,this will only lead to corruption and desorganization. that's why there is so much civil wars in africa, because as we all know the hand that gives, is the hand that controls. having economical power is having political power.
eye believe that in africa we need a Socialist-Capitalist system,supporting the belief that african socialist leaders had back in the 50th and 60th , of a so called african socialism sharing economic resources in a "traditional" African way,but with todays africa reality that is not very different from back then.but it needs to be as distinct from classical socialism.

we need to use some of our martyrs Socialism program because it represent a break from the imperial ruling tradition. this type of Socialism ,will be all that capitalism haven't been for the african people.

This system should not oppose capitalism nor a response to it, but should be something completely different. because at this level we can not destroy or see capitalism as something negative. this system needs capitalism to survive, to feed itself. we have to find a way to co-exist together avoying a another cold war or a 3 world war which could erase the world now that most of powerful nations have nuclear bomb, and others we do not know how far they are in having one, or what other type of nuclear power already exist and are being waitted to be texted....
As our Nationalists leaders claimed that, taht type of socialism was fully African, appealing to an African identity that was even stronger than anti-capitalism. Their socialism, they claimed, was merely a recapturing of the spirit of what it was to be African.

A multitude of reasons were presented in support of African socialism. Many believed that Africa was too far “behind” capitalist states in terms of economic development to compete fairly with them. Others appealed to a sense of unity that would not be provided by the competitive capitalist systems. Still others believed that the development of Africa should be planned in order to avoid wasting scarce resources, and avoid future class conflicts.

African identity and socialism were often intertwined. Some leaders claimed that Africa had always been “socialist,” and appealed to socialism as a unifying cultural element for Africans. This was not by any means the only form of African identity that they appealed to, but the combination of socialism and African identity was doubly effective in ending the era of old imperial regimes. Social revolution usually went hand-in-hand with socialism.

Conclusion:
With all the ressources that africa has , if our leaders were serious, if they were doing their job, we would not even need no aids from no country, but we would be the one helping the world.
what we need to do is to learn from their errors in ths construction of our great african nation in unity,uniting our economy,army, politic with one voice to represent africa as one voice. but becareful, not as a copy of the old african socialsm that our forfather couldn't even realize not because they were murdered but because even since the independence, they were already divided due to self ambitions. that the virus that they have left us all today as the people. we need to break that cicle, and come together as the people and change the direction of our continente leadership.the best way to reach there is by changing everything not from the top to thebottom, but from the bottom to the top, because from the top to the bottom is corrupted, that why we need new type of methode, of leadership.
we need to re-organize everything in africa; our political, social, educational, heal, program...and we will do this not as east africans, or western africans, or central africans, but as Africans, seeing Africa as Patrice Lumumba saw it, as whole, and not divided.
''Africa Or Death''

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