Towards Emancipation

The ever increasing political and economic strife, the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor, the increased militarism of global imperial forces, and the advent of neoliberalism all point to one thing; the class struggle, naturally, keeps getting more and more acute. As the society keeps getting more and more unequal, so does the need for the ruling classes to protect themselves more and more from the people, and, therefore, so does their thirst to maintain the monopoly of violence in a bid to keep the people enslaved. What, therefore, does this mean for us? What are we to do? The need for we as the people to resist this onslaught, as has been done for years and years, cannot be more imperative. For we, as the toiling people, this means nothing but desperate struggle to counter what we can comfortably call desperate resistance from the ruling elite. We have the responsibility to carry through the class struggle to its logical conclusion.   Ushikwapo shikamana, au ...

The philosophical basis of Socialism is dialectical materialism, so called because its view of phenomena, its way of studying and understanding them, its method of apprehending them, is dialectical, whereas its method of interpreting them and internalizing them, is materialistic. Dialectical materialism is created by the fusing together of two major concepts of philosophy; dialectics and materialism. To understand it, therefore, it is critical that one grasps the idea behind these two concepts. Dialectics is a way of looking at things based on analysing their features within them; what characterises their existence and their development. A tree, a book, a human being, a cow and anything else that exists in nature has some features which give it the state of its existence and which determine their development. Looking at them closely and critically, one would realise that there exists some contradictory forces within them, features and characteristics that act opposite of each oth...

Abolition of classes! Abolition of private property! Abolition of exploitation in all it's forms! The nature of our society is, unfortunately, such that the general public hardly knows what exactly it is supposed to know, and ignore what ought to be ignored. The people find themselves consuming only that knowledge which their governments and ruling classes want them to consume. The truths about our societies are often concealed and distorted, the result consequently being that the people find themselves hating and condemning, even dreading, those whose activities are geared towards their own benefit, and adoring and celebrating those whose mission it is to run down the society and those whose drive it is to fulfill their private interests at the expense of the compact majority. The people, oftentimes, find themselves supporting the oppressors and vilifying the oppressed. But are they to blame for this? A quick understanding of the nature of the organization of the society would p...

The economic,social and political development of the African people in the past few centuries has been, needless to mention, peculiar. In the global stage, the past five hundred years have witnessed the primitive accumulation of wealth in preparation for the dawn of the capitalist era, the agitation therefrom for the abolition of the feudal system of economic production, the onset of the capitalist mode of production and consequently the advancement of modern industry, the advent of monopoly capital and the rise of imperialism and colonialism, and, finally, neocolonialism. The peculiarity of Africa in this case is that it is not at the centre of these developments; it is at the periphery.  Africa is not the initiator of these advancements, it is the recepient. For the primitive accumulation of capital necessary for industrilization in Europe, Africa had to suffer the capture and enslavement of its people in merciless fashion. During the advent of the capitalist mode of production ...

A frequently arising matter in various ideological and political discussions is the economic advocations of the system of socialism, its practicality, and how to achieve it. Oftentimes, one has to foremost explain the scientific basis of socialism as a mode of production, without which it becomes difficult to clarify our agitation for it. Perhaps a basic question would be; what is socialism? A thorough understanding of socialism is critical to understanding the reasons for our advocation for the same. But this is needless to mention. Foremost, contrary to what most people think, socialism is not a ‘ wonderful idea ’ created by some ‘ would be ’ world reformers or humanitarians. Socialism, contrary to the perception of many people, some even within our ranks as the African Socialists, is not an economic system based on charity, helping the poor or promoting welfare programs. It is not an economic model simply geared towards providing social amenities such as housing, healthcare, e...

The practical tasks facing us at the moment are immense. As revolutionaries, and as members of a revolutionary party, it is our duty to day and night toil for the preparation of the revolution by all means necessary. Whether the future of Kenyans, Africans and the human society in general will remain full of poverty, want and exploitation or otherwise will depend on how fast and steadfastly we organize for their liberation. But this is needless to mention. Foremost, we are a workers' party. The interests of the workers, their welfare and their ultimate emancipation from wage slavery should therefore be our guiding principle primarily. With this in mind, it follows that the cadres of our party must engage the workers with a view to arouse their political consciousness and generally make the working class a class for itself, not just in itself. Efforts must be made to make the workers aware of their relationship with capital, their place as the generators of wealth in the economy, a...

As an African, one is born into a world where their conception of the state of affairs and their view on the global society is quite unnatural. The ordinary African is born into a society where poverty and want is the order of the day. It is a fact that the ordinary African experiences inadequate food, shelter and clothing. It goes without saying that Africans find themselves in a world that offers them nothing but ignorance and disease. But perhaps most saddening is the fact that the ordinary African is born into a world that places him at the very bottom of human society, that despises and mocks him for his misfortunes, physical appearance and his sorry state of affairs. The human mind is designed to find answers where there are questions, and no doubt the people of African descent everywhere have numerous questions in the back of their minds as to whichever ‘curse’ that befell them, its origin and the possibility of a way out. Foremost, Africans need to be acquaint...