Comments on: Angola is one of the African nation states with natural geographical borders https://www.isegoria.net/2025/05/angola-is-one-of-the-african-nation-states-with-natural-geographical-borders/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Fri, 19 Jun 2026 04:48:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Lucklucky https://www.isegoria.net/2025/05/angola-is-one-of-the-african-nation-states-with-natural-geographical-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-3758407 Lucklucky Fri, 30 May 2025 22:07:30 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52897#comment-3758407 “immediately undermined their own somewhat questionable socialist credentials by joining the long list of colonial and African leaders who enriched themselves at the expense of the people.”

Socialism is mostly a langauge mechanism to get absolute power. The people only matters when it feeds that propose.

“civil war between tribes disguised as a civil war over ideology. Russia and Cuba supported the ‘socialists,’”

Not only:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Angolan_coup_attempt

The author seems not to know of large indoctrinated young men and women. Angola at that time was also growing a black bourgeoisie with university studies, so outside the tribe. Unversities were started in 1968, while this was under that conservative Portuguese dictatorship the l’áir du temps was of May 1968.

Tribe factor matters when communist central government tries to destroy tradictions and traditional power.

Luanda in 1970 before the coup in Portugal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IQni8Go6RM

]]> By: Jim https://www.isegoria.net/2025/05/angola-is-one-of-the-african-nation-states-with-natural-geographical-borders/comment-page-1/#comment-3758388 Jim Thu, 29 May 2025 03:00:41 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=52897#comment-3758388

Many of the civil wars of the 1960s and 1970s followed this template: if Russia backed a particular side, that side would suddenly remember that it had socialist principles, while its opponents would become anti-Communist.

“LOL, LMAO.” (Literally every such case.)

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