The first Marxist IQ of the New Year in Honor of African Liberation by Norman Markowitz

by: Monday 6 January 2014

In honor of Nelson Mandela, I thought I would dedicate the first Monthly Marxist IQ to the African Liberation Struggles.

 

1.       In developing its Freedom Charter, the African National Congress established a united front  with

a.       The Liberal Party of South Africa

b.      The Constitutionalist Party of South Africa

c.       The Communist Party of South Africa

d.      The Nationalist Party of South Africa

 

 

2.         In the 1960s and 1970s,contrary  the recent praise for Mandela by U.S. goernment authorities,  the Central Intelligence Agency play an important role in

a.       The murder of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo

b.      The capture and imprisonment of Nelson Mandela in South Africa

c.       Support for Jonas Savimbi’s contra war in Angola

d.      All of the above

 

 

3.       Although it had no formal colonies in Africa, U.S. policy toward Africa through the cold war era was to

a.       support national liberation movements

b.       oppose and demand sanctions against  the South African Apartheid regime

c.       Support racist white settler states, military juntas  and neo colonial regimes

d.      Take a hands off Africa approach.

 

 

4.       Marxists see the system of chattel slavery(from the 16th to the 19th century) as

a.       Providing huge profits that were essential to the development of European and North American commercial capitalism

b.      Taking  millions  out of African societies and undermned African development

c.       . showing as nothing else does the hypocrisy of capitalist claims to advance “freedom” and “democracy”

d.      All of the above

 

5.       At the Versailles Conference, the most important spokesman for an end to colonialism in Africa was

a.       Woodrow Wilson

b.      Ho Chi Minh

c.       W.E. B Dubois

d.      Jan Christian Smuts

Answers to December;s Marxist IQ

1.c

2.d

3.c

4.d

5. a

 

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  • 1. C

    2. d

    3. c

    4. d

    5. b

    Posted by , 01/10/2014 3:39am (11 years ago)

  • 1. c
    2. d
    3. c
    4. d
    5. c

    Thanks to professor Markowitz for this timely honor to Father Mandela, who was called Father, much like W. E. B. Du Bois was called Father by African leaders like Kwame Nkrumah and by leaders in the U. S. Civil Rights Movement.
    There was not and is not any antagonistic contradiction between the forwarding of civil, social, and human rights and anti-imperialism and anti-racism.
    The contrary is true.
    There are necessary and complementary connections between these. Also, add the struggle for both democracy and socialism, and we have what the millions of communists and workers have fought for in heroes like Du Bois and Mandela, along with white South Africans like the great South African Communists theoreticians Ruth First and husband Joe Slovo.
    Du Bois famously quotes Marx's Capital in his The World and Africa, tracing the roots of capitalism in African slavery.
    Logically, the roots of freedom for and from capitalism would be in African socialism, its interpenetrations commensurate with a world wide socialism, anti-imperialism, democracy and extension of worker rights, guarantees, and protections.

    Posted by E.E.W. Clay, 01/07/2014 11:12am (11 years ago)

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