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Is Ibrahim Traore a socialist? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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I know he's called himself a Sankarist, but is he a socialist? His actions would seem to align with what a socialist would do in his position. He recently talked about a "progressive people's revolution", if that means anything.

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[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That's a weird comparison.

Unlike Traore's Burkina Faso, which joined with Niger and Mali, in an anti-imperialist West African military agreement of AES, with no ideological path to meet YET,

the DERG was an explicitly Marxist Leninist state focused on cracking down on other fellow Marxist Leninists, like the states of Somalia and Eritrea and Tigrayan rebels, in a fit of ethnic sectarianism, in East Horn of Africa.