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Is Ibrahim Traoré a Socialist or Just a Left-wing Nationalist? (europe.pub)

submitted 3 weeks ago by pyromaiden@lemmygrad.ml to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml

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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.

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[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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.