KWAME TURE: MARX DIDN’T ‘INVENT’ LAWS OF SOCIALISM

Some Africans are suspicious of socialism - regarding it as a European ideology and invention. They argue that our continent needs a homegrown economic doctrine to address the socio-economic injustices there (many of which are a legacy of European colonialism).

But revolutionary Pan-African activist Kwame Ture begged to differ. As he argues here, Karl Marx didn’t ‘invent’ socialism, he ‘discovered’ it - just like Isaac Newton didn’t ‘invent’ his laws of motion but ‘discovered’ them.

That is, Ture considered socialist truths to be a real feature of the world - ‘out there,’ waiting to be discovered like any other facts of science. They are universal in character, and hold good for all humanity. (Nobody would argue we need a special ‘African physics,’ would they?)

Do you share Ture’s moral certainty? Have a watch and see whether it strikes a chord.