Derideo_Te
Je Suis Charlie
- Mar 2, 2013
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Unrealistic because the Apartheid regime would have censored what he said.No, Mandela didn't, but his group did. Whether the gov was trying to use his denouncing of the violence as a political tool or not, he still should have. He could have used that opportunity to denounce the violence and the violence conducted by the government."Inspired by Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement in the Cuban Revolution, in 1961 Mandela co-founded Umkhonto we Sizwe ("Spear of the Nation", abbreviated MK) with Sisulu and the communist Joe Slovo. Becoming chairman of the militant group, he gained ideas from illegal literature on guerilla warfare by Mao and Che Guevara. Officially separate from the ANC, in later years MK became the group's armed wing." I would say that at least Mao and Castro were some of the "greatest" influences. Mao is the most troubling considering he murdered millions.
Guilt by association now?
The events in the 1980s took place 25 years after he was made "chairman" and he was incommunicado for most of the time. He wasn't the only person reading those books and he most certainly wasn't training anyone on how to "kill millions".
Like I already said, my opinion is not yet decided. He should not be separated from the group he created.
Sounds to me as though you already have!