By Andile Mngxitama The job of a true revolutionary is to seek the shortest route to liberation whilst suffering minimum casualties. A revolutionary movement must unite with all who are aggrieved by the ruling power to seek change. Only reactionaries who pretend to want change put their religious prejudices ahead of the accumulation of revolutionary …
By Andile Mngxitama Of course I hate the Hollywood anti black racist motif of the film that Slavoj Žižek uses to explain ideology (see link below). Why was the black man not the one who brought consciousness? I would have preferred a depiction that puts the black radical revolutionary in a position of fighting for the …
By Enrique Ubieta Gómez March 14, 2020 from Granma There is a drawing that imitates a photo, Karl Marx appears in a pitusa, a red pullover and leather jacket. Under his arm, he carries a volume of his masterpiece: Das Kapital. The Genius of Trier looks at us as he walks, impatient. The poster bears …
Image credit: The South African By Andile Mngxitama It is exactly 21h30. I promised to come live on Facebook at this time and speak to you about electricity and to answer the big question: is free electricity possible? This is really in response to those who have been attacking the people of Soweto saying that they …
Onkgopotse Abram Tiro. Gallo Images By Andile Mngxitama Exactly 46 years ago today in Botswana, a bomb went off and took the life of our hero and brother Onkgopotse Abram Tiro. The bomb was sent by the apartheid government on behalf of the white community as a whole. Tiro like Steve Biko was a liberation …
Onkgopotse Abram Tiro. Image credit: SAHO By Andile Mngxitama I think of Tiro as a brother of Steve Biko. Tiro and Biko, Brothers in Black Consciousness (BC). These guys rhythm as one. I read how Tiro got impatient with the Keith Mokoape group. After their resolution was defeated by Biko’s powerful intervention, the Keith group …
By Andile Mngxitama “The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over …
Image credit: MyCampusMag By Andile Mngxitama Julius Malema is a shrewd and brutal businessman. He behaves like a true capitalist whose only consideration is the profit margin. In this quest for accumulation, no consideration for the well-being of others is entertained. This is how capital reproduces itself and ensures profits. Karl Marx, who Malema ostensibly …
By BO Staff Writer “A newspaper is not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, it is also a collective organiser” – V.I Lenin By BO Staff Writer Black Opinion (BO) humbly walks in the footsteps of its revolutionary forebears. It was established on 10 April 2016 – at a time when the imperialist …
By BO Staff Writer Introduction It must be said at the outset that Lincoln was no socialist. Neither was he a communist, nor a Marxist, However he and Marx were contemporaries – a nine years age difference between the two. They had many mutual friends, had read each other’s writings and, exchanged missives in 1865. …
