Aimé Césaire who passed away last week was not only a poet. He was above all a political thinker and practicioner : a man who believed in the power of thoughts and words in changing lives.
Cesaire has died but his thinking will survive him. Eventhough he wrote and spoke in French, Cesaire, it should not be forgotten, was a Creole as he was born and lived in the Creole-speaking French overseas department of Martinique in the Caribbean. Cesaire who coined the concept of negritude preferred to define himself as an “emancipationist” rather than as an “independentiste” (pro-independence) or autonomist (for autonomy). Being well versed in semantics and at the same time a grounded politician, Cesaire knew what words mean.
Emancipation means liberating the minds of men so they can continuously reinvent themselves and move forward. A progressist, he believed that no theory is better at giving an explanation and offering a solution to a problem faced by a group of people than the latter. As he once put it: “Aucune doctrine ne vaut que repenser par nous-meme.”
Hence, Cesaire bring us to realise that indoctrination means an attempt by any group to impose a theory or philosophy on another group by preventing them from thinking it through. It is this attempt at indoctrination which turns any philosophy into an ideology.
Just like communism became an ideology because it was not “repenser”, so does liberalism, the dominant philosophy today, runs the risk of becoming an ideology as liberals are trying to indoctrinate everybody into accepting it without question.
Seen through this angle, liberals constitute the greatest danger to the future of liberalism. Liberals want to apply liberalism to all problems.
The solution to any problem lies in applying the liberal concepts of privatisation, deregulation or liberalization. Moreover, if a liberal solution fails we are told that a better solution is to apply more of the liberal remedy.
When it reaches this point where its precepts cannot be questioned, liberalism becomes fossilised, hence becomes an ideology. It becomes a cause of human sufferings instead of an element of hope. At this point it ceases to be a factor of progress, because as Cesaire once said: “Le progres ne se compte pas par le nombre de vies humaines gaspillées, mais sauvées ”
- Bravo Lepap. Lepap Benoit Sez in ganny bokou aplodi par bann medya dan lemonn swivan son komanter kont bann prêt pedofil Lanmerik.
Pandan son vizit Lanmerik Lepap ti dir ki Legliz Katolik pou tre sever e pous tou bann per katolik ki gany trouve koupab pour bann ka pedofil, ki vedir labi seksyel lo bann zanfan. Lanmerik, ki pourtan en pei kot dimoun i kontan koz lo Bondye, plis ki 13 mil zanfan in ganny abize seksyelman par plis ki 5 mil prêt katolik. Lepap in fer byen pou vin sever avek bann prêt pedofil. Isi Sesel kot gran mazorite dimoun i katolik nou ankor dan sok apre ki en pedofil (pa en prêt) ti abiz plizyer pti fiy. (Lepap Benoit Sez).
- Tir dile avek park. Dapre zournal lopozisyon Regar, Sesel i en pei ki pe faid e kot nanryen pa marse. Nou a rapel sef lopozisyonn in dir ki i determinen pour relev Sesel. Me sa menm sef lopozisyon pe diriz en group aktivis son parti pour demann gouvernman bann gro sonm konpansasyon pour domaz ki zot ti gannyen dan lensidan le 3 Oktob 2006. Si lopozisyon i vreman anvi relev Sesel ki zot dir i ater, zot tia komans par dir gouvernman ki zot pa bezwen sa konpansasyon. Sinon zot pou zis en bann profiter ki oule tir dile menm avek park.
- Zwazo menm nik. Valer roupi Morisyen in ogmant par preski 20 poursan. Pourtan, dapre zournal L’Express pri marsandiz dan magazen Moris pa’n desann par gran kankite. Nou a rapel ki isi Sesel letan nou roupi ti perdi 40 poursan son valer pri serten marsandiz dan serten magazen ti ogmant plis ki 40 poursan. Savedir ki Sesl koman Moris i annan marsan malonnet ki abiz lo konsomater akoz kan fodre ogmant pri zot fer monte plis ki an fo e kan fodre fer desann zot diminye pri par mwens ki fodre.
- Césaire, le politique. Aime Césaire, qui s’est éteint jeudi dernier à l’âge de 94 ans, était avant tout un homme politique. Devenu célèbre avec son œuvre majeur Cahier d’un retour au pays natal et surtout pour avoir invente le mot négritude, Césaire détient le record de longévité à l’Assemblée Nationale française. Il siégea au parlement français de 1945 à 1993 et fut aussi Maire de Fort de France, chef lieu de sa Martinique natale, aussi bien que Président du Conseil Régional. Césaire fut le fondateur du Parti Progressiste Martiniquais.
- La voix des vaincus. Jean Ziegler, le plus tiers mondiste des suisses, a décrit la situation alimentaire dans le monde comme «un crime contre l’humanité ». Auteur d’un rapport spécial sur le droit à l’alimentation du Conseil des Nations Unis sur les droits de l’homme, Ziegler qui a déjà plusieurs ouvrages a son actif, dont le plus célèbre La Victoire des Vaincus, a rapellé que notre monde est a un tournant de son histoire et qu’il faut choisir «entre nourrir les voitures ou les hommes».
Belle formule qui décrit bien le dilemme actuel devant lequel se trouve les responsables qui doivent choisir entre augmenter la productions des biocarburants pour les voitures afin de réduire l’émission des gaz à effet de serrer ou utiliser les produits agricoles pour nourrir les gens.
- Sharing the spoils of victory. In Kenya, the political establishment (ruling party and opposition alike, as they now all belong to a coalition government) seems very happy with the outcome of the political tug of war following the turmoil of the post-election period. Former political foes Mwai Kibaki and Raila Odinga have given Kenya its largest government made up of 40 ministers and 52 assistant ministers.
This means that nearly one in every two Member of Parliament is a cabinet member. They are also well paid as a minister gets a monthly salary of US$18,000 plus many bonuses. According to BBC the salaries will cost Kenya taxpayers US$1.5 million every month and the bonuses $13 million every year. While the politicians share the spoils of election victory the Kenyan people who have an income per capita of $400 per year await for the dividends of democracy which should be more schools and better health care besides political stability.
- Social christianism. Voters in the South American Republic of Paraguay have elected Fernando Lugo, candidate of the Patriotic Alliance for Change, as their country’s first left-leaning President. A former Roman Catholic Bishop, who is popularly known as the ‘Bishop of the poor’, has promised to implement policies, such as an agrarian reform, that will improve the living conditions of his fellow countrymen.
A broad movement known as social christianism has sprouted out of the inspiration to use the words of Christ to improve the lives of others. It is hoped that Fernando Lugo succeeds where another former Roman Catholic clergy man, Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti, also brought to power by the poor on a wave of hope known as ‘Lavalas’, failed.
- M’beki and his ‘quiet diplomacy’. The rational minds find it hard to understand that South African President Thabo M’beki, the champion of African Renaissance, could stand by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. This is all the more so when one finds out that there is no love lost between the two leaders and the two ruling parties - ANC in South Africa and ZANU-PF in Zimbabwe - do not have long ties of friendship.
The truth is that beneath the veneer of ‘quiet diplomacy’ promoted by M’beki and his desire to find “African solutions to African problems”, is an old political deal. When Zimbabwe got its independence and Mugabe wanted to go ahead with his land reform ANC which was then still fighting for majority rule in South Africa urged him not to do so as it could harden the whites in South Africa. Mugabe postponed the land reform for geo-political reasons.
- The right to manipulate information. Recently USA’s top-selling daily The New York Times ran a headline with the title “Behind Analysis, the Pentagon’s hidden hand”. According to the article, Pentagon, USA’s military establishment has a well-defined strategy on how to manipulate public opinion.
It seems that in the Land of Freedom those who are powerful have the right to manipulate information so as to influence public opinion and hence the right to be informed of others
Depi komansman sa semenn pri de kalite diri in ogmante. Pandan ki bann fanmir i reaziste zot bidze pour fer fas avek sa sitiasyon, bann ki ti abitye blanm SMB pour tou problenm e marsan ki ti zire ki zot kapab fer vin diri bon marse i reste trankil.
Antretan, sa bann marsan malonnet ki pa kontan ganny kritike i ankor en fwa rod fason pour fer profi dan sa sitiasyon.
Sa ki ti pou arive in arive. Toulezour nou ti tande ki pri diri pe ogmante dan lemonn. Diri ki ganny konsommen par enn dan sak de dimoun dan lemonn in vin en ketsoz telman rar e telman ser ki dan plizyer pei i annan lager diri. Alor sa ki nou ti tande lo televizyon touleswar in finalman ariv kot nou dan laform diri pli ser. Fodre osi dir ki logmantasyon dan pri diri isi i bokou mwens ki logmantasyon lo marse enternasyonal. Gouvernman in rod en fason pou minimiz lefe logmantasyon dan pri diri.
Me i kantmenm drol, ki sa bann bon labous ki ti dir liberaliz lenportasyon diri ek zot bann zanmi ki ti dir ki zot kapab fer vin diri pli bon marse i reste trankil. Sa ki’n arive dan lemonn i montre nou ki liberalizasyon i kapab en move ketsoz. Menm si i annan bann fakter parey move letan ki afekte rekolt diri, lefe i reste ki pli gran fakter ki’n fer pri di ki plant diri i annan drwa vann avek sa ki i anvi. Avek liberalizasyon osi gouvernman pa kapab garanti konsomater en pri diri ki bon marse.
Avek move letan fermye in vann zot diri avek sa ki annan plis larzan. Deplis, akoz pri diri i ganny determinen lo bann labours oubyen ‘stock exchange’ parey pri lezot komodite parey petrol, alor bann dimoun ki annan larzan e ki pa ni manz diri in zwe avek pri diri lo labours. Nou apel sa spekilasyon.
Pri diri i ser akoz sa ki fer spekilasyon i fer gro profi lo diri. Sa bann profiter i fer spekilasyon akoz sekter diri in ganny liberalize. Malerezman se bann ki manz diri e ki pa fer spekilasyon ki soufer. Lala lefe liberalizasyon antro
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