The Angolan Civil War is a very strange period of history for me. By all logic it doesn’t make sense that there are not only two large, powerful communist parties but that they were fighting each other - with one even being backed by the West of all people. I’ve heard the division was caused primarily by an ethnic dispute with the two parties representing two different ethnicities.
Is this accurate or was there more to it than that? I’d appreciate any insight anyone has - or at least resources if available - in order to better understand why this war happened.
Socialism became very en vogue in africa, so you had a lot of people claiming to be one to gain “clout”. Somalia & Tanzania are good examples, even Zimbabwean socialists purged the ML’s.
Interesting. Do you have any resources for this? I’d like to read more about it.
I’m not familiar with this particular case, my knowledge of African history is based on North American public schooling, in otherwords almost non-existent. However, this is a pretty common thing to use, or stop using, the “s-word”, depending on how fashionable it is. Just look at the Nazis (national socialist party). That nonsense has led to today still people honestly thinking that nazism was socialism. India has also gone back and forth on whether or not it wants to be called socalist over the years.