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Cleansing Conspiratorial Revolutionary Flame
24th May 2011, 18:36
Out of curiosity, what is the general concession of Hoxhaist opinion regarding Thomas Sankara and Burkina Faso during his rule? Which could easily be described as Marxist-Leninist in action in overall structure, organization and economic analysis.
Out of curiosity as well, I'm also wondering what were the Socialist People's Republic of Albania's relations like with Burkina Faso and Albania from the time of 1984 to 1987.

Cleansing Conspiratorial Revolutionary Flame
24th May 2011, 19:03
As far as Burkina Faso's Marxist-Leninism goes:

Its quite evident in the program of Sankara's Party that the newly founded Burkina Faso State was to be led with Marxist-Leninist economic goals at heart, along with the liberating of the Proletariat in Burkina Faso.

Which would lead to:

*Sankara's Party having formed CDR's made up of Tribal Elders, Workers and those who had worked Agriculturally in which-- Control over the Industry had from 1984-1987 been led forth in the Workers Interest.
*Emancipated women within Burkina Faso from conditions in the country side that could be described as Semi-Feudal and forming womens centered councils that would allow for the systematic liberation of women within Burkina Faso.
*Former Bourgeois being removed from their positions from 1984 to 1987 and the payment of those within Governmental Positions going down massively.
*Socialism in One Country esque policies with a intense regard for the need of Internationalism on the basis of protecting Socialism in Burkina Faso but being in solidarity with others being implemented.

I find it rather interesting that a more orthodox Marxist-Leninist analysis of the Burkina Revolution isn't adopted as opposed to the opinion where the Burkina Faso Revolution is equated with being similar in nature to the Cuban Revolution, when Sankara's Government had disregarded the USSR's attempts at spreading aid into Burkina Faso and the overall policies that the Burkina Faso Government had taken.

Ismail
24th May 2011, 20:18
The pro-Hoxha PCRV in Burkina Faso today is apparently somewhat influential on the ground level, and has existed since 1978. They viewed Sankara's government as having come to power via military coup, not revolution. There's also a fountain named after Enver Hoxha in Pô.

Other than that I know little. In the year 1983 Hoxha had already begun his withdrawal from public life and was increasingly unhealthy, and would die in 1985. Hoxha's Collected Works stopped at 1979 (the last Volume, 70, was published in 1990, and work on subsequent volumes was stopped that year) so that's not available, and his collected private diary entries go up to November 1980 (Volume 14) before stopping.

Gustav HK
24th May 2011, 20:35
I have heard that the hoxhaist party in Burkina Faso was opposed to Sankara, but Hoxha supported him (not as a socialist but as a progressive), so the Burkinan hoxhaists split themselves in two parties, one against and another for Sankara.
Now there is one hoxhaist party again.

Nothing Human Is Alien
24th May 2011, 21:43
The Hoxhaist party in Burkino Faso, which was fairly new at the time, didn't support Sankara and co (it still exists, and attends ICMLPO-U&S conferences). A group called the Burkinabe Communist Group, that broke away because of this, split a few years later (after Sankara was killed). One splinter joined the government as a part of a "Marxist" coalition that in reality was bourgeois to the core. The other became a democratic socialist party.

Ismail
25th May 2011, 08:40
The Hoxhaist party in Burkino Faso, which was fairly new at the time, didn't support Sankara and co (it still exists, and attends ICMLPO-U&S conferences). A group called the Burkinabe Communist Group, that broke away because of this, split a few years later (after Sankara was killed). One splinter joined the government as a part of a "Marxist" coalition that in reality was bourgeois to the core. The other became a democratic socialist party.Yes, the PCRV is the one that attends the ICMLPO-U&S and dropped its support of Sankara, arguing that a coup was not a revolution. As can be seen those that shroud progressive bourgeois democratic governments as "Marxist" are quickly tempted into capitalism.