Conservative on abortion and gay marriage, but they are extremely socialist based, big gov loving and hardly libertarian on free speech or press!
Nope,you are wrong. Socialism would mean a more equitable distribution of the vast wealth Africa has. A middle class would emerge as viable as the one that arose in the USA after the Great Depression. But conservatives, in the west and in Africa, have worked to exploit the average African. For instance:
Canadian policy in Africa has become largely synonymous with the interests of Canadian mining companies. The Harper Conservatives have sought to ensure that the continent's mining policy serves the interests of foreign corporations, the majority of Africans be damned.
No, because socialism always starts with theft and robbery. Theft of land, business, money, even identity and language, which is the worst. I would never wish this evil on Africa, Europe has been suffering it enough.
You do realize the capitalist bastion we call America started with theft of land, Indian business ( no matter how primitive) identity and language. Are you calling our American founders socialists? I'll take it a step further and bring up the capitalist rape of Africa where they stole not only the land and resources but the people too. Yes, some Africans sold other Africans but a great many were kidnapped or shanghaied . Lets not mention theft of identity and language in THAT case. However, looking at capitalism from a Black perspective, Socialism would seem the far better choice for the average African.
No. This is totally not agreeable, and not reasonable. First of all, the invasion of the Americas may have involved genocide, but not a theft of identity and language. The Indian tribes that survived, kept their language and identity, to this day. This is the opposite to what Europeans did in Africa and east Europe. Messing with people's identity and language is a French export, not Anglo-Saxon.
I think you'll have to agree that the theft of Indian land is an un- retractible fact. Also you should consider that those tribes that did not survive lost everything:..identity,language and their lives. I realize that is pushing it a bit but I haven't finished. Along the way to "assimilation" the US government forbade Indian children from speaking their native languages in school. For many the language of their ancestors has been lost; and, for those who successfully assimilated, their identities as well.
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I think I have proved my point. But to add icing on the cake. I'll point to other places in North America that lost almost all traces of their native identity and language due to invasions from Spain. The Native culture of Mexico, like South America, was so thoroughly, eviscerated, hardly a vestige remains. Without their pyramids and various artifacts to remind the world of what once was, I wonder if any history of them would have survived at all.