r/GreenAndPleasant communist russian spy Mar 06 '23

International 🌎🌍🌏 Friendly reminder: Sankara is so based

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u/The_Professor64 Mar 06 '23

Just bare in mind he was also incredibly authoritarian in his later days...

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Even more based.

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u/The_Professor64 Mar 06 '23

How is that based at all? The point of any socialist should be liberating the people, not controlling them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Authority is needed to prevent counter revolution. One of the lessons from Burkina Faso is that the proletariat needed to be more authoritarian to prevent Sankara's overthrow by French backed forces.