Straight forward question. Been trying to gauge the man’s politics and I think he leans more toward being an anti-colonial nationalist rather than an outright socialist. Still based and deserving of critical support, but maybe not the next Thomas Sankara; not that he needs to be, but it’d be cooler if he was.

    • Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
      141·
      30 days ago

      He’s a African bourgeoisie revolutionary

      Do you have evidence that he’s from the bourgeoisie class?

        • Munrock ☭@lemmygrad.ml
          91·
          29 days ago

          As military officer you could say he was a (disloyal) servant of the bourgeois state, but to say he was bourgeois just by being a military officer is stretching the definition. Saying he held “power and relative privilege” is a reach. He didn’t own capital; he made money selling his labour to the state: he wasn’t and isn’t bourgeoisie.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      121·
      30 days ago

      Among the things Traore has spoken of is that France funds its country quite well, but in its colonies, or exploited neo-colonies, they aren’t building roads, power plants, etc. He’s cut the salaries of politicians and is building up his country’s infrastructure with the wealth of selling nationalized natural resources at fair market value (instead of at a fraction, which it used to be sold at). That is socialism he’s talking about and practicing.

        • rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml
          7·
          29 days ago

          In theory, There’s no explicit Marxist-Leninist party, proletarian dictatorship, or worker-state model as in orthodox socialism. The government is a military junta, not a popular workers’ republic.

          Regarding the worker-state model or proletarian dictatorship, this has been answered by Traoré:

          “Democracy is not where you begin—it’s what comes after revolution.” .

          You can have democracy(which is the result of DOTP and not to be confused with liberal democracy) after the revolution has finished. Burkina Faso hasn’t reached that stage because they are currently in war with imperialist sponsored terrorists that are ravaging the country and also they haven’t finished stabilizing the country’s conditions. In other words, there is still so much work to be done.

          However, this doesn’t mean that they are not working towards this. If you investigate how their grassroots organization and local governance work, they are actually moving towards achieving that and they are receiving plenty of governance experience exchanges from China:

          • durduramayacaklar@lemmygrad.ml
            4·
            28 days ago

            Thanks for the de program effort comrade I’ll be researching or maybe translating some articles to get public support for their efforts.

    • burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml
      101·
      30 days ago

      Is he a representative of the bourgeoisie? Does he support (or is supported by) national bankers, landowners, industrialists? What is his political power base?

    • La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlOPEnglish
      71·
      30 days ago

      I agree, though I’m not sure I’d use the term ‘bourgeois’ to describe him or his revolution as I don’t think either work as appropriate or accurate descriptions.