Like many educated intellectuals in postcolonial Africa, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was enraged at the transformation of his native land by its colonial conqueror. But instead of embracing the traditional values of his own tribal cultural past, he embraced an imported Western ideology, Marxism. I call such frustrated and angry modern Africans who embrace various foreign "isms", instead of looking homeward for repair of societies that are broken, African Colonials. They are Africans who serve foreign ideas.
Yes, Marxism is every bit as much a Western ideology as free market capitalism. It might not (yet) be as American as apple pie, but it is certainly, undeniably Western. And as forms of colonialism go, it has certainly done a nice job of keeping Africans down.
A few examples. In terms of numbers alone, Marxistgenocide reduced the population of Ethiopia by a million. In Zimbabwe, dictator Robert Mugabe's Marxist regime has not only bankrupted the country, but is practicing a form of "smart genocide" -- "perhaps 10 times greater than Darfur's and more than twice as large as Rwanda's." And during Angola's Marxist period, Portuguese colonial troops were replaced by Marxist Cubans.
As to the details of whether Barack Obama's father was a Marxist and thus a practitioner of this form of colonialism, I don't know, as I have not digested his entire economics philosophy, nor do I plan to. There are twosides to the argument of whether in fact he was a committed Communist. However, I don't find statements like this partricularly reassuring:
Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 percent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income that is taxed.
Remember, that's Senior, not Junior talking. (Whether the elder Obama was a Commie or not, I'm not sure I buy into the idea that Marxism is necessarily hereditary....)
The point is, Marxist colonialism has much to answer for.
Little wonder Marxists like to paint colonialism as its "opposite."
posted by Eric on 06.27.09 at 09:48 AM
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The rise of Communism in Africa was facilitated by Ralph Bunche. A forgotten man who helped turn a thriving continent into a nightmare, all thanks to the UN and US State Dept. For this he got a Nobel Prize.
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The rise of Communism in Africa was facilitated by Ralph Bunche. A forgotten man who helped turn a thriving continent into a nightmare, all thanks to the UN and US State Dept. For this he got a Nobel Prize.
More interesting info on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Bunche