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Is Ibrahim Traoré a Socialist or Just a Left-wing Nationalist? (europe.pub)
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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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[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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 points 4 months ago

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