Is Robert Mugabe wrong for having a nice palacial crib? Pics of mansion

[Ms. Elaine]

His interior decorator probably is his wife

Wealthy people have professional ones, though. But in fairness, rich people in the 3rd world usually get scammed.

 

[CACarot]

Nah it's disgraceful but this is how most European sponsored and non-sponsored leaders/dictators live in S. America, Africa etc. Remember what his roots are their similar to Idi Amin. Live in deckadence while ya people live in squalor.

.....It's decadence bruh.

 

[George's Dilemma]

Mugabe was no Marxist in practice. He was like most authoritarians who spout the Marxist philosophy.

Marxism and demanding a one-party state is a useful way to create an ideological underpinning for total authoritarian control of a country.

Amazing how it always works out that way.

 

[Poitier]

Marxism and demanding a one-party state is a useful way to create an ideological underpinning for total authoritarian control of a country.

Ehh I think has to do with commodity economies cut off from the global economy using Marxist rhetoric as a sort of passive aggressive opposition to the West rather than any sort of flawed underpinnings with Marxism itself.

If we are being honest, capitalism has allowed a small group of elite far greater control over the global economy than some despot dictator over some single country whose only assets are raw goods.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Ehh I think has to do with commodity economies cut off from the global economy using Marxist rhetoric as a sort of passive aggressive opposition to the West rather than any sort of flawed underpinnings with Marxism itself.

If we are being honest, capitalism has allowed a small group of elite far greater control over the global economy than some despot dictator over some single country whose only assets are raw goods.

It's not that reactionary. Nkrumah, Nyerere, Mobutu and others used such rhetoric when their economies were both doing well and connected to global economies.

It allows African leaders to gain control over local elites and economies (to the detriment of economic growth) while sticking a thumb to the West. However that thumb gouges out the eye of the indignant.

 

[TEH]

Wealthy people have professional ones, though. But in fairness, rich people in the 3rd world usually get scammed.

We are dealing with a third world maniacal African dictator here not some ...never mind I just read your second sentence.

 

[Poitier]

It's not that reactionary. Nkrumah, Nyerere, Mobutu and others used such rhetoric when their economies were both doing well and connected to global economies.

It allows African leaders to gain control over local elites and economies (to the detriment of economic growth) while sticking a thumb to the West. However that thumb gouges out the eye of the indignant.

Define well?

Imp It's only a detriment because the larger gang subscribes to capitalism and authoritarianism is likely under any ideology given similar conditions.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Define well?

Imp It's only a detriment because the larger gang subscribes to capitalism and authoritarianism is likely under any ideology given similar conditions.

Well as in their economies were growing beyond 4 per cent per year.

We may be talking about two different things here. Socialist policies enacted by African governments contributed to contraction of various economies.

The only example I can think of where divided elites within an African country are trying to advance free market principles or socialist economic principles in order to win over a populace is South Africa. From what I can observe, African governments typically use statist or developmental economic principles over more free market ones even IF they say they subscribe to capitalism or neoliberalism.

 

[yardman]

.....It's decadence bruh.

 

[Poitier]

We may be talking about two different things here. Socialist policies enacted by African governments contributed to contraction of various economies.

Can't be Marxist/socialist if you haven't industrialized.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

Can't be Marxist/socialist if you haven't industrialized.

Theoretically, yes. That didn't stop people from finding away around that while still being socialist.

See Stalin, Mao, Nkrumah, Nyerere

Socialism was seen as a way to industrialize.

 

[The Odum of Ala Igbo]

I will make a post questioning the 'single story' legacies of leaders who enacted socialist economics and one-party states in Africa, but that's for another day.

 

[RedCloakBlackWraithe]

mugabe the god blast-for-he.

 

[egsteel]

That tv is too damn heavy n akward to move. So he just left that bish right there .

He'll eventually put a smaller tv on top of it, just like grandma did.

 

[Alvin]

Mugabe is a Marxist. Zimbabwe's current failures are reminiscent of the conclusion of policies pursued by Nyerere, Nkrumah and others in Africa.

nkrumah was evil? or simply poor at understanding economics