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Cant wait for all the anti-cracker-aktion tears this year

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[–] 46 points 2 years ago (12 children)
  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    That'd at least be edgy. It ain't like southern Africa doesn't have a lot of commie groups with cool names. Zimbabwe African National Union, Zimbabwe African People's Union, People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola, Mau Mau, Spear of the Nation.

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  • [+] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Werent those two Zimbabwean parties mortal enemies until the united front happened against Rhodesia? And one of them was Maoist and the other was more orthodox ML and wanted to recruit among the urban proletariat, except Rhodesia had very few of those and quite a lot of angry peasants / landworkers.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I thought Mau Mau was a name the Bri*ish imposed on Kenyan resistance groups rather than a name they used themselves?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Apparently the main revolutionary who said this also said they claimed it as their own. All the possible origins are really neat, and it seems pretty clear the British didn't create the name but rather chose it from the movement's phrases or someplace local as a means of denying the KFLA name which would imply political legitimacy.

    Which KFLA also sounds cool as hell when said phonetically

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Has a distinctly "Not Fuckin Around Coalition" energy to it that I appreciate. Shame that NFAC had some uh. Nasheed-adjacent ideas; they might've been the only hard-radical formation I knew of that Amerika had.

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