#nkrumahism

[djbabybeatman]

[grimereaperzreport]

Description Product description THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES The six pamphlets in this book reflect the indomitable spirit of Kwame Nkrumah, the symbol of fighting Africa. The first, What I Mean by Positive Action, was written in 1949 when the campaign for the independence of Ghana was at its height. The other five pamphlets were all written between 1966 and 1968 in Conakry, Guinea, where this great Pan-Africanist carried on the socialist revolutionary struggle to which he devoted his whole life. 1 What I Mean by Positive Action 2 The Spectre of Black Power 3 The Struggle Continues 4 Ghana: The Way Out 5 The Big Lie 6 Two Myths All except the first, which was written in 1949 at the height of the national liberation struggle, were written in Conakry between 1967 and 1968. Not only is Kwame Nkrumah's theoretical work highly original and consistent, it is also a practical guide to revolutionary action. #alutacontinua #kwamenkrumah #nkrumahism https://www.instagram.com/p/B7gn4Mugkys/?igshid=a0f0ftqbvt5c

[hauntingnecropolitics]

Nkrumahism & LGBT Liberation

Next project is on bridging Nkrumahism with LGBT liberation, the Gay Liberation Front was inspired by Stokley Carmichael’s speeches, particularly their slogan “Gay is Good” as a direct reference to Black is Beautiful.   Time to dig through speeches and writings. I think I’ll end up focusing on dialectical materialist understandings of gender, precolonial gender identity in Africa, LGBT history in Africa precolonialism, and go from there.  Marsha P Johnson might be a good place to go as well.  Who are your favorite LGBT African thinkers, what are your favorite speeches, I know Huey P Newton speaks of solidarity with the Gay Liberation Movement.  

[tharacecard]

The Allies We Need

One downside of Black nationalism as the political basis for a liberation movement: when the entirety of our ideology is, "we're Black, stop killing us" we necessarily attract allies with savior complexes or chauvinists looking to co-opt our energy for their own gains. White liberal messiahs trying to get their Bernie Sanders at an MLK march on, seeking flagellation then personal validation then social capital on an altar of Black rage. These folks are annoying and they aren't going to help us get free.

What we need are allies who understand that African liberation is in their material self-interest. What we need are allies who understand that racism and white supremacy didn't spring fully formed from hell to keep us down, but rather were developed with the intentional aim of creating a justification for the genocidal colonial project known as capitalism. A project that has mutated into the imperialism that is the enemy of all oppressed people worldwide today.

Racism and white supremacy are the opiates the ruling class gave the European proletariat (the working class and poor folks) in exchange for their rights and the fruits of their labor. It's how they convinced poor European workers to enact incredible violence against the colonized peoples of the world to protect the theft of wealth the working class would never, and will never, see. Poor Europeans were promised a piece of the pie, better wages, first crack at skilled labor, upward mobility. They got consumer electronics, Jim Crow, racist football team names to cling to, mass layoffs, and jobs shipped by the tens of thousands overseas. (And European indoctrination is so complete, that when they see their high paying jobs converted to slave labor in the Third World, they blame the powerless workers there and not the bourgeois who chose to lay them off. Racism is a hell of a drug.)

What we don't need are individual emotion-based analyses of internalized racism. What we don't need is for working class Europeans to learn how to better hide the bigotry and lies they were indoctrinated with in exchange for the evaporating crumbs of so-called white privilege. What we definitely don't need are white guilt healing circles. Tears of shame and acrimony will not save us. Do that shit on your own time.

What the African liberation movement needs from it's allies, what it must demand, is total commitment to a socialist revolution and to helping each and every European working class person to develop a class and race based political analysis. Gather your cousins.

[liquidprowlerrook]

Socialism develops countries at a much more rapid rate on a humanist scale than the exploitative machinations of capitalism and neo-colonialism , Nkrumahism as an independent ideology coming from African culture and history with principles of humanism, egalitarianism and collectivism is the guide toward socialism and Pan-Africanism as objectives

[blkintellectual]

Kwame Ture (aka Stokely Carmichael) rapping about Nkrumahism!!!