African Socialist Party Conference Livestream

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

Here is the livestream of the Afrikan Socialist Party. I'll try to comment on here to give you a gist of what's going on. Maybe in a bit I'll add to the OP to describe who they are and what they believe in.

http://www.livestream.com/uhurunews

[Yet_Another_Boring_Marxist]

First note, this speaker wears a red shirt. I generally like this party from what I've read from them. However I really wish this speaker would STFU. At first it was ok, he was talking from the perspective of a same-gender-loving which was interesting. But then he went on a rant about how we've ignored the struggle of black men because they've been "femminised" and went on to say how we've focused too much about the woman's struggle because the "femminization" of black men is more oppressive, and I quote "The black man is oppressed more under matriarchy than the woman is under Patriarcy". As soon as he said that I was praying that he would STFU and GTFO but unfortunately he didn't.

Second comment
The next speaker who wears a black shirt, unfortunately didn't denounce the reactionary views of the prior speaker but did speak of the importance of a scientific outlook for the revolutionary perspective that is materialist which I do see as positive. He also talked about linguistical imperialism and brought up a lot of good points. So far I like this speaker

He is currently discussing the difference between genuine mistakes and counter revolutionary activities and views, the former he assigns to the cultural hegemony of white power and the second he assigns to a material interest in having these views. His mentions of antagonistic and non-antagonistic contradictions in this discussions makes me think that the ASP definitely has a Marxist tone to it similar to how the SDP of Germany had a large Marxist influence while not explicitly stating their Marxism.

Third point

Ok, the first speaker came back and was asked to make a statement about the distinction between Transgender and Same Gender Loving in the context of revolutionary politics. I quote "Transgender, and I use the word Transgender, is not a political agenda unlike how Same Gender Loving is a political agenda". Seriously, can this guy STFU and GTFO

Fourth point

I think there was a speaker between the one I am refering to but he didn't say anything interesting. The guy who came up was just talking about how important it is to create an international line within the black liberation movement on same gender loving and to spread this line to the wider African community

Fifth point

The speaker afterwards just reiterated how important it is to make a line on SGL people and that we can not distinguish them as a separate part of the African community but rather they should be supported on the basis of class unity.

Sixth point

blah blah blah nothing interesting

Seventh point

The guy I liked from before that wears a black shirt is talking again, hes talking about imperialism and catholocism. Interesting so far, he then went on to discuss opium in imperialism and islam in imperialism. He also goes on to note that the shift in global power in the last century has shifted 5 times as opposed to priorly when it shifted only once a century and quoted an anaysis in Foreign Affairs who said that the increase in political conscious action is responsible for the decline of western power. He then goes on to say that this demonstrates that imperialism is in a crisis in the long term and that short term crises of capitalism can be used to create revolutionary movement to abolish imperialism. I like this guy

Then the conference ended. Pretty cool stuff mostly, except for that one guy. Well that's it, I hope you appreciated it. If there's any interest I can do some research on these guys to give you some more information about them