[Marxism] The Weapon of Theory - Amilcar Cabral (PAIGC)

[S. Artesian]

Of course,  linking the struggle of the oppressed for emancipation with that 
anti-working class "volkism" of fascists is worse than absurd.

However there needs to be a real recognition, historical recognition of the 
origins and limitations of  a "national" project-- in that the struggle is 
initiated by the self-same conflict between means and social relations of 
production that  besets capitalism in its advanced forms,  where capital 
struggle against the limitations of the property forms that it creates and 
supports; where capital sees always one solution-- more access to cheaper 
labor; that the "national" content is, in a real sense, archaic at its very 
birth and represents the impracticality, impossibility, of a national, 
democratic, etc. etc. revolution; and that for the theory of emancipation to 
become a practicality,  class must replace "people," international must 
replace nation.

Cabral was a Marxist?  Everybody is a Marxist at some point.  Except maybe 
Marx.  Cabral was a nationalist?  Sure, so was Savimbi.

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