Opinion of Patrice Lumumba?

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Definitely one of the better postcolonial leaders, and like all the better postcolonial leaders he had to die.

Being an idiot will do that.

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Rousseau and Voltaire are not communists and neither was Lumumba. Guy was a general African liberal.

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He was a Communist.

Outside of his regular studies, Lumumba took an interest in the Enlightenment ideals of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Voltaire. He was also fond of Molière and Victor Hugo. He wrote poetry, and many of his works had anti-imperialist themes.[13] He worked as a travelling beer salesman in Léopoldville and as a postal clerk in Stanleyville for eleven years.[14] Lumumba was married three times. He married Henriette Maletaua a year after arriving in Stanleyville; they divorced in 1947. In the same year, he married Hortense Sombosia, but this relationship also fell apart. He began an affair with Pauline Kie. While he had no children with his first two wives, his relationship with Kie resulted in a son, François Lumumba. Though he remained close with Kie until his death, Lumumba ultimately ended their affair to marry Pauline Opangu in 1951.[1]

There is nothing communist here. He was a liberal nationalist.

That's what Castro said, and at about the same time.

Better Communist than Christian

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I seriously wish Lumumba and Mandiba were communists, that would have been so based to have a socialist Africa realized. Alas, they weren’t.