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Straight forward question. Been trying to gauge the man's politics and I think he leans more toward being an anti-colonial nationalist rather than an outright socialist. Still based and deserving of critical support, but maybe not the next Thomas Sankara; not that he needs to be, but it'd be cooler if he was.
Do you have evidence that he's from the bourgeoisie class?
As military officer you could say he was a (disloyal) servant of the bourgeois state, but to say he was bourgeois just by being a military officer is stretching the definition. Saying he held "power and relative privilege" is a reach. He didn't own capital; he made money selling his labour to the state: he wasn't and isn't bourgeoisie.
Among the things Traore has spoken of is that France funds its country quite well, but in its colonies, or exploited neo-colonies, they aren't building roads, power plants, etc. He's cut the salaries of politicians and is building up his country's infrastructure with the wealth of selling nationalized natural resources at fair market value (instead of at a fraction, which it used to be sold at). That is socialism he's talking about and practicing.
Regarding the worker-state model or proletarian dictatorship, this has been answered by Traoré:
“Democracy is not where you begin—it’s what comes after revolution.” .
You can have democracy(which is the result of DOTP and not to be confused with liberal democracy) after the revolution has finished. Burkina Faso hasn't reached that stage because they are currently in war with imperialist sponsored terrorists that are ravaging the country and also they haven't finished stabilizing the country's conditions. In other words, there is still so much work to be done.
However, this doesn't mean that they are not working towards this. If you investigate how their grassroots organization and local governance work, they are actually moving towards achieving that and they are receiving plenty of governance experience exchanges from China:
Thanks for the de program effort comrade I’ll be researching or maybe translating some articles to get public support for their efforts.
Is he a representative of the bourgeoisie? Does he support (or is supported by) national bankers, landowners, industrialists? What is his political power base?
Why are you telling he is petit bourgeois or has a petit bourgeois power base? Which information do you have to prove your claim?
What’s wrong with being pan-Africanist? If anything that makes him an internationalist rather than a nationalist.
Did I say it’s wrong? I said that he should be supported?
I agree, though I'm not sure I'd use the term 'bourgeois' to describe him or his revolution as I don't think either work as appropriate or accurate descriptions.
That's not what petty bourgeoisie means.