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He was part of a Marxist org in his youth and has staffed his administration with various Sankarists, who are socialists because I have never seen a Sankarist org or person who wasn't also socialist. Socialist Burkinabe orgs like the Thomas Sankara Center pretty much treat him like a socialist.
It's pretty obvious he is one even if he's not being open about it. At the certain point, when someone has a past history of being in a socialist org, is widely acknowledged by socialist orgs within the country to be a fellow socialist, and is more or less making decisions that a socialist would make, they pretty much are one. Traore doesn't have to be carrying around giant portraits of Lenin or make a speech called "Why I am a Socialist" in order to be one.
It's good that Sankarists are being employed across the state. My fear is that he gets merked by a lucky assassin and the revolution just instantly folds without a figurehead.
I dont wanna lean into great man theory but it isnt unheard of for a single assassination to largely kill the momentum of a movement immediately.