/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

Eritrea is AES. President is a Maoist trained by China back during the 60s.
>dollar curency peg
Countries recovering from civil war generally aren't attractive to lenders. Probably an emergency measure they deployed to prove their fiscal "reliability" to the bond markets. They'll get rid of it once they're economically strong enough.

>>2861435
>I still don’t understand. Is it really socialism?
No but this doesn't exclude dictatorship of proletariat which it isnt.

>>2861435
Eritrea is a fake country invented to divide socialist Ethiopia

>>2861610
Mengitsu was wrong, we know he was wrong because he lost the war. That doesn’t make TPLF crypto Zionism okay but you can’t return to the Derg model, Abbi Ahmed is fucking things up precisely by trying to emulate the Derg in a neoliberal form.

>>2861610
Eritrea was never a part of Ethiopia thoever. Might as well say Somalia is a fake country too while you are at it. You don't need to do anything to divide Ethiopia anyways. Ethiopia is the fake country.

>>2861435
Didn't you already make this thread or was that someone else? Did you even read the last thread?

At this point is there a single country MLs won't call AES and DoP?

>>2861435
> Is it really socialism? If it is then it is definitely outside the Marxist school of thought at least.

1. DOTP != Socialism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRXvQuE9xO4
   
   
2. it really isn't - just because it has state-owned industries does not mean it's "socialist" or a DOTP
   
   

it needs a real sense of worker control over the government via things like worker's councils in order for even a discussion of if its a DOTP to exist.

>>2861756
>>2861754
Has a DoTP ever existed in any country yet?

>>2861760
consensus would be that a DOTP existed in France via the Paris Commune and in the Soviet Union before Lenin's death

Anyways, I doubt this will be an informed or productive conversation but I will tell you there are basically three sources of information you can get on Etitrea:
>Western media hit pieces
Eritrea has been declared an enemy nation of the countries writing these articles so use some common sense
>Eritrean diasparoids
Who either lived there and left or have family there. These are divided between ones who support the govetnment and the ones who are violently against. They all agree on Eritrean soverieignty but the anti-government ones come across as incredibly naive. They seem to think that if the government allows free reign on foreign investment and free market capitalism Eritrea will just spontaneously have 1st world living standards somehow.
>the government itself
This is their website for English language articles: Shabait.com

https://shabait.com/2026/07/07/50th-anniversary-of-establishment-of-revolution-school/
50th anniversary of establishment of ‘Revolution’ School

So pick your poison, I don't think you will be able to form a deginitive opinion.

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09ASMARA363_a.html
You guys always like this one. Anti-Dengist Afwerki.

<3. (C) PASS THE MOUTAI AND KEEP IT COMING
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>Isaias ate little during the meal but drank almost a whole bottle of high-proof Moutai, becoming visibly inebriated and sentimental as the evening drew on. He remarked repeatedly on his admiration of Chairman Mao and claimed that Mao laid the foundation for all of China's subsequent achievements. Other Chinese diplomats tell us Isaias dislikes Deng Xiaoping because Deng attempted to undermine Mao's legacy. Isaias avidly consumes biographies of Mao and has refused offers of books on Deng and modern China. On a monthly basis the Chinese ambassador's chef gets a request from Isaias to send over a Chinese meal. Ambassador Li reported that Isaias watches Chinese news on television. Now 63 years old, President Isaias still plays a mean game of ping pong, according to some observers, when his chronic lower back pain permits.

>>2861743
Abiy Ahmed is a retard and also insane. The Mengistu comparison is very apt because he is also an insane retard that became head of state mostly through chance.

Mengistu was at least a shot caller and real OG gangster dude. Abiy is just a pathetic clown. I don't believe he is actually running shit. I think it is the people who back him who decide everything(Oromos, the UAE, etc.)


<When Abiy Ahmed assumed office as Prime Minister in 2018, he publicly shared that his mother had prophesied during his childhood that he would grow up to become the divinely anointed "seventh king" of Ethiopia. This belief in his destiny has deeply shaped his political vision.
I mean transplant the Soviets for UAE but still I think Mengistu was more of a boss dawg. He earned his place by being the top gangster after the revolution. I think he is a good lesson to you revolutionary LARPers, this dude was illiterate, he never read one word of Marx, but he beat all the wannabe Marxist student revolutionaries at the critical moments in the shootout because that is what is whay he is good at. He only pretended to be Marxist because the US wouldn't support him and the Cold War and the USSR still existed.

>>2861791
Until those marxist nerds took CIA and Chinese money and arms and collapsed the gangster state he created, I could see it happening to Abiy if he were to actually go hot with the Egyptians over the dam project

>>2861794
>>2861794
>Until those marxist nerds took CIA and Chinese money and arms and collapsed the gangster state he created
Bullshit. Mengistu only existed as a matter of fact of the soviet missteps as I think you are quieyly trying to allude to. Fun fact, I read that Cuba would not support them directly the field against Eritreans because Cuba recognized them as fellow travellers. Anyways, Eritrea is still here, the soviets are not. The sovieys decided to pull the plug on Mengistu for all the readons I mentioned.

>>2861797
The cubans were fine defending Mengitsu against the Barre regime when they made incursions into ethnically Somali areas hoping to just annex it like Saddam in Kuzestan. They saw the fight against the EPLF and TPLF as a civil war, you didn’t have the element of Apartheid South African troops invading on behalf of one side like in Angola.

>>2861794
>>2861794
>I could see it happening to Abiy if he were to actually go hot with the Egyptians over the dam project
I support the GIRD and fuck Egypt and Trump for mentioning it 10,000 times. Credit to the TPLF, they got this through while Egypt was busy with the Ayrab Spring. God bless them.

>>2861802
TPLF got squished though, they sucked in government and they made the same mistake the Tamil Tigers did, trying to go conventional too early and especially with trying to march on the capital.

>>2861804
They were in power for 30 years and like I said, they built the GIRD, or started the dam and they opportunistically syarted it while Egypt was procuppied with allowing democracy and electing the Muslim Brotherhood then executing them. It wouldn't have happened if those American lapdog's eyes were on the ball.

GERD I am sorry the E obviously stands for Ethiopia

>>2861808
>>2861810
Either way war with egypt will only make both places worse, imagine Iran Iraq but with half a billion people involved

>>2861813
There is not going to be any direct or 'hot' war with Egypt. The time to bomb the GERD has came and went. It is over. They would flood their own territory if they were to bomb it. I have read analysis by independant hydrologists from third party countries and they say this is all nonsense. Egypt has just been hyping make believe to no effect but yet pur president, praise be to hom and his cognitive powers, believes it.

I mean straight up if Ayrabs launch a war against Blackrficans. You don't even know I give the Ayrapps a pass as opposed to wypipo. But like really dude?

It's all LARP

>>2861610
Fuck the DERG and fuck the Somali Democratic Republic, Eritrea won.

>>2861899
If you don’t have anything intelligent to say, don’t say it.

> This n***a. Not only does he want to preach about CIA, Langley, cold war, new world order for three hours straight on his interviews.. Now he wants to write a book? 🤣🤣
Lol. I was trying to find this map of the horn showing all the countries backing who I saw on the eritrea subreddit.