Article: For Our Departed Revolutionary Idealists
4 views
Skip to first unread message
Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM
Jan 23, 2020, 7:28:12 PM1/23/20
to USA African Dialogue Series
By Edwin Madunagu
Let me begin by saying that the term idealist is not used in this article in the philosophical sense. Were this the case, departed comrades to whom the piece is dedicated would not be considered as Marxists at all. But they were all revolutionary Marxists. I employ the term idealist here in the ordinary sense of a person that cherishes or pursues high or noble principles, purposes or goals but without giving sufficient consideration to objective, historically-determined reality. When this description is applied to departed Nigerian revolutionary Marxists, you begin to have a picture of the type of persons I have in mind and the type of revolutionary tendency they partly reflected. We shall return to this and conclude with it...................
--
Let me begin by saying that the term idealist is not used in this article in the philosophical sense. Were this the case, departed comrades to whom the piece is dedicated would not be considered as Marxists at all. But they were all revolutionary Marxists. I employ the term idealist here in the ordinary sense of a person that cherishes or pursues high or noble principles, purposes or goals but without giving sufficient consideration to objective, historically-determined reality. When this description is applied to departed Nigerian revolutionary Marxists, you begin to have a picture of the type of persons I have in mind and the type of revolutionary tendency they partly reflected. We shall return to this and conclude with it...................
--
Chidi Anthony Opara is a "Life Time Achievement" Awardee, Registered Freight Forwarder, Professional Fellow Of Institute Of Information Managerment, Africa, Poet and Publisher of PublicInformationProjects
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages