Class
Nkrumah identifies this group as central to African society and essential to revolutionary change.
Who are the peasents.
The indirect influence through economic leverage, foreign aid, debt, multinational corporations, and cultural pressure.
What is Neo-Colonialism
The final stage of imperialism, where a country is politically independent but economically controlled by foreign powers.
What is Neo-Colonialism?
Expressions of the class struggle and the struggle between imperialism and socialist revolution.
What are Coups d'etat?
rural, laborers, and industrial workers (mainly employed in major industries, mining, transport, etc.)
What is a Proletariat?
According to Nkrumah, neo-colonialism is the final stage of this global system.
What is imperialism?
When all land and means of production belonged to the communities.
What is Communalism?
The majority of coups were engineered by...
Who are the bourgeois?
This class in Africa is tied to foreign capital and benefits from Neo-colonialism.
Who are the African bourgeoisie?
Defeating neo-colonialism requires mobilizing this group.
Who are the workers and peasants?
The total liberation and political unification of the African continent under an All-African socialist government.
What is Pan-Africanism?
Their joint aim is to protect capitalism and to frustrate the purposes of the African Socialist Revolution
What are pro-imperialist coups?
The classes of the petty Bourgeoisie .
Who are the farmers (rural petty) and Urban petty?
Neo-colonialism survives not only through foreign influence but through the cooperation of this class.
Who are the African bourgeoisie?
A term created the bourgeoisie that in practice the minority always exercises effective power, and that the dominant minority can never be controlled by the majority,
What is Elitism?
Those who seize power in order to banish foreign politico-economic dominance.
What are Revolutionary Nationalist Coups
Division within the class of traditional rulers.
Who are clan heads, chiefs, paramount chiefs, emirs, etc?
Neo-colonial states lack control over this fundamental aspect of nationhood.
What is economic policy?
A political and moral philosophy centered on individual liberty, consent of the governed, and equality before the law.
What is Liberalism?
What is Nkrumah's critique of revolutionary nationalist coups?
"Not completely socialist, as the position of workers and peasants is scarcely affected and continues to be exploited and oppressed."