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Cant wait for all the anti-cracker-aktion tears this year

  • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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    11 months ago

    Okay, but, putting the word "Economic" in your name just sounds nerdy. Call yourself the "Liberation Front" or something cool sounding.

      • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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        11 months ago

        That'd at least be edgy. It ain't like southern Africa doesn't have a lot of commie groups with cool names. Zimbabwe African National Union, Zimbabwe African People's Union, People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, Mau Mau, Spear of the Nation.

        • What_Religion_R_They [none/use name]
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          11 months ago

          Zimbabwe African National Union, Zimbabwe African People's Union

          ... Judean people's front, The People's Front of Judea...

          • CTHlurker [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            Werent those two Zimbabwean parties mortal enemies until the united front happened against Rhodesia? And one of them was Maoist and the other was more orthodox ML and wanted to recruit among the urban proletariat, except Rhodesia had very few of those and quite a lot of angry peasants / landworkers.

        • Orannis62 [ze/hir]
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          11 months ago

          I thought Mau Mau was a name the Bri*ish imposed on Kenyan resistance groups rather than a name they used themselves?

          • Vncredleader
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            11 months ago

            Apparently the main revolutionary who said this also said they claimed it as their own. All the possible origins are really neat, and it seems pretty clear the British didn't create the name but rather chose it from the movement's phrases or someplace local as a means of denying the KFLA name which would imply political legitimacy.

            Which KFLA also sounds cool as hell when said phonetically

              • Vncredleader
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                11 months ago

                Here is his memoir if anyone wants to read it https://archive.org/details/maumaudetaineeac0000kari

        • Vncredleader
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          11 months ago

          Don't forget SWAPO which sounds so cool in song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chNWEouwv0U
          or my favorite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXo98ViR9IU

          Seriously folks check out Namibian communist music, some of the best out there

      • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
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        11 months ago

        Has a distinctly "Not Fuckin Around Coalition" energy to it that I appreciate. Shame that NFAC had some uh. Nasheed-adjacent ideas; they might've been the only hard-radical formation I knew of that Amerika had.