No.4233
Black Africa during the cold war wasn't ideologically committed to Marxism in any serious manner apart from its overlap with decolonization. I think Burkina Faso under Thomas Sankara might've come the closest, but even that was a short lived experiment that was cut short.
The fact is that once 1991 hit, African states just dropped the commie flags because they couldn't get economic support from the Soviet Union or Cuba anymore. It was just a veneer for gibs. The Angolan civil war was won with Cuban troops and the second the MPLA got control, they just hard switched to "libertarian socialism" and made peace with the west. Somalia and Ethiopia both switched superpower support at a moments notice during their war in the 1970s, thinking nothing of having a red flag and fighting another red flag.
It wasn't even a poverty thing either, because China at the time was poorer than Black Africa and was hard committed to Maoist thought, shilling their little red book to anyone who would take it, blasting revolutionary radio channels across asia non-stop.
I don't think it would've made any difference Phantasm, they still would've believed in Dependency Theory, which is more the rationale for the African drive towards collectivism.
No.4235
>>4233>China poorer than black africaThat's actually pretty wild to think about
