The fight against all forms of oppression, as well as the agents of oppression, the police, government and capitalist class is revolutionary because of what they're fighting for, but also suicidal because confrontations with the police and other repressive state apparatus will expose the revolutionary to almost certain physical injury or death.
Thursday, 15 May 2014
To the internet Leftists who label Nelson Mandela a sell-out
Nelson Mandela started the armed struggle for the liberation of South Africa from the oppressive apartheid regime. He was the first commander-in-chief of the armed wing of the ANC. He served 27 years in prison, suffering brutal labour and solitary confinement, for his opposition to the apartheid state. He led the negotiations -extremely difficult circumstances - for the dismantling of political apartheid, and managed to keep the country together in the process. He is THAT GUY. Criticise his record in government all you like (which was overall positive, but with mistakes and contradictions of course), but if you label him a sell-out, I might have to assume that you live on some sort of ultra-left revolutionary cloud up in the sky, be careful of altitude sickness, bruh.
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