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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days agobtw, do you think americans would still go to africa if it turns out to be/become communistic? i.e., no or restricted private ownership of land, …
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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days agobtw, do you think americans would still go to africa if it turns out to be/become communistic? i.e., no or restricted private ownership of land, …
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Feels like a bit of a null question. Africa isn’t a monolith, there’s north/south/central/etc etc. A fully communist africa wouldn’t make sense at all, it would be like saying a communist europe. Which, europe’s a continent full of different countries, with ideological differences.
[Most] americans (westerners in general maybe? I don’t know how negative anti-capitalism was viewed as a result of the cold war beyond the US) would probably avoid it completely if it was socialist (which as of now, i don’t recall any leftist government in africa.)
Anyway, africa has been socialist before (at least, north africa). Afaik, under Gamal Abdel-nasser in Egypt with Nasserism (i have a mixed view of nasser, personally.) And Gaddafi with the Third international theory (yeah fuck this guy lmao) [north] africa was socialist. Both were dictators, unfortunately.
My views on nasser are mixed, since he was an anti-imperialist willing to stand up against western imperialism and wanted to unite arabs. But… he also turned egypt into a military dictatorship, putting their tentacles in everything. Make of that what you will, though.