Distorted Version of Democracy: Can I Choose My Opponent From The Lesser Of Two Evils?
What ends up happening is that the people have to narrow down their demands and will to fit whatever either party can offer. This is a distorted version of democracy because instead of the parties reflecting the will of the people, the people have to reflect the will of the parties which can lead to some unthinkable mentalities…
White Supremacy, Yet A Factor Against International Solidarity
Nevertheless, paraphrasing Walter Rodney, white people are an enemy of the oppressed people, until proven otherwise (Walter Rodney rightfully applied the same logic to Black or Afro intellectuals/elites). Hence, only on the battlefield, only by sharing the blood under the sounds of machine guns, will white supremacy be destroyed. Solidarity will not be taken for granted or forced upon people as Imperialist US and EU tried to suggested to the people of the world regarding the war between Russia and Ukraine. True solidarity will be built and earn through the revolutionary struggle. Not only between white and non-white, but also among all oppressed people...
Let’s talk about confrontations
The other challenge of confronting people from the oppressors or privileged groups is to do with being afraid to hurt or disappoint the “good and honest” oppressors or those who are “helping” us. This can lead people from the third group to deem their words, to accommodate the truth to the oppressor, and to try to not be too subversive. This is a trick, truth is only truth when it is given as it is and should be. I mean, from a personal opinion again, if the oppressors feel attacked, they have to question their positionality, and oppressed people should never feel uncomfortable saying why they are uncomfortable…
Pourquoi n’y a-t-il pas encore eu de révolution en RD Congo ?
Cet article s’adresse principalement au peuple congolais, mais il peut aussi s’adresser à tout autre Afro ou autre peuple opprimé et exploité par le système capitaliste, impérialiste et raciste occidental et ses marionnettes. La révolution, je pense, finira par inclure (à un stade différent et ultérieur) d’autres peuples opprimés et exploités, car nous devons maximiser nos ressources et attaquer sur tous les fronts pour être sûrs de renverser ce système qui a mis des décennies et des siècles à être mis en place…
Somewhere on the road to Hope
Nobody should be blamed for their decision to survive. Is it a sin to hope for the best even when your womb is being emptied in front of the whole world? Is it an outrage to pray for the rain of peace in the middle of the arid desert of chaos and bullets? All these people have done was to exist, but what could the world be without them? In a few more years, we will find out. Can we say that their reality will forever be in the hands of others to manipulate? Does the word “hope” really mean anything to them? Will it ever translate into “resistance”?
Why there has not been a revolution in the DR Congo in the 21st Century?
What one can do is, first, to keep educating themselves. As you have read so far, it is difficult to realize what I have just mentioned without researching it because it is taught nowhere. We cannot expect to learn that from school, we have to put an effort into unlearning all the propaganda we have been fed with. Books are a good start because the truth is that we are not alone, a lot of our brothers and sisters and ancestors have realized too the flaws in the system and they have written about it. One needs just to look for them. There is a lot to learn out there from books, even suggestions for way-outs. And again, we should not expect to truly understand revolutionary texts from going school, we need to put an effort into analysing them. After that, we need to educate each other. Even if it may not be the most comfortable thing to do if a brother or sister is still brainwashed, it is our duty as a community to bring them home (Carmichael, 1971, p. 433)…
The Journey to Hope from Destruction
Two decades passed, wars succeeded one another, rebellions begot insurrections and injustice engulfed wretchedness. But the land got rebuilt, a new system, for the people, got installed and agreements got made. Although there is still impunity in the air and some parts are still blurry, victims, their children and their grandchildren are asked to move on, to forget a past that has benefitted some at their expense…