>like, in reading this, i'm tempted to say that bongo is
>perhaps expecting too much of nkrumah, in pointing out what he
>sees as flaws in the government that he erected.

*channels bongo* low expectation having mofo, democracie is not too much to have expectations of.

haha, but seriously though, is it too much to ask of nkrumah to not cancel elections, to tolerate some dissent, to see the scariness of the ussr and china at a time when plenty of other people did? it's not too much to ask of castro not to basically crush all his fellow revolutionaries because he can't tolerate any kind of disagreement.

>i mean, when i go back and read Blood In My Eye by george
>jackson, its unnerving all of the marx-talk. i mean, they
>bought that suit off the rack. but still, he was *about*
>something and did something and i'd rather, i guess, that he
>went out as he did, hitching his cause to the best available
>ideological bandwagon rather than spending so much time trying
>to formulate something new that he never got to the action
>phase.

see, i disagree. i don't think off-the-rack marxism WAS the best avilable bandwagon, thinking IS acting, and leninism destroys people's hopes and lives. the cult of action has been a very dangerous idea in the 20th c -- we'd all be better off thinking.