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I know he's called himself a Sankarist, but is he a socialist? His actions would seem to align with what a socialist would do in his position. He recently talked about a "progressive people's revolution", if that means anything.

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[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's a weird comparison.

Unlike Traore's Burkina Faso, which joined with Niger and Mali, in an anti-imperialist West African military agreement of AES, with no ideological path to meet YET,

the DERG was an explicitly Marxist Leninist state focused on cracking down on other fellow Marxist Leninists, like the states of Somalia and Eritrea and Tigrayan rebels, in a fit of ethnic sectarianism, in East Horn of Africa.

[–] Lemister@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh no not how derg operated, but the whole military leading couping the government but doing socialist actions. There is a very informative and mostly neutral with some lib video about them.

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