Ideological Deficiency Within the National Liberation Movements
“It is often said that national liberation is based on the right of every people to freely control its own destiny and that the objective of this liberation is national independence. Although we do not disagree with this vague and subjective way of expressing a complex reality, we prefer to be objective, since for us the basis of national liberation, whatever the formulas adopted on the level of international law, is the inalienable right of every people to have its own history, and the objective of national liberation is to regain this right usurped by imperialism, that is to say, to free the process of development of the national productive forces.
“For this reason, in our opinion, any national liberation movement which does not take into consideration this basis and this objective may certainly struggle against imperialism, but will surely not be struggling for national liberation.”
Source:Amilcar Cabral, “The Weapon of Theory”, 1966.
As an inference, therefore, ever since the national liberation movements were robbed of their revolutionary content and leadership in the dilution of the world revolutionary process, they have been characterised by ideological shallowness, egocentrism and cultism. Ideological firmness had gradually been sacrificed at the altar of neoliberal self-enrichment.
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