Nelson Mandela has died at the age of 95!
I have traveled to South Africa and visited where he was imprisoned at Robben Island. I met a doctor who was imprisoned with him; he told me stories about how Mandela would teach the fellow prisoners math and languages while they mined limestone. If the guards caught them they would be beaten.
He will go down as one of the most important humans of the century. Hopefully one day, economic equality can be reached in South Africa like Mandela dreamed. However, after seeing the country, it is still far from it.
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Agreed.
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Does anyone really understand why he is considered so important?
Most "great" people are pretty overrated if you really research them... but this guy wasn't. So credit goes to him.
Gotta love WSO. The pope comes out with a quip against capitalism and people call for his head, meanwhile a self avowed marxist dies and people come out of the wood work to pay respect.
Dude did some good and was influential. I am not going to put a Facebook post up sweating him though.
"Political ideology
Mandela was an African nationalist, an ideological position he held since joining the ANC,[322] also being "a democrat, and a socialist".[323] Although he presented himself in an autocratic manner in several speeches, Mandela was a devout believer in democracy and would abide by majority decisions even when deeply disagreeing with them.324
He held a conviction that "inclusivity, accountability and freedom of speech" were the fundamentals of democracy,[325] and was driven by a belief in natural and human rights.[326] This belief drove him to not only pursue racial equality but also to promote gay rights as part of the post-apartheid reforms.[327]
A democratic socialist, Mandela was "openly opposed to capitalism, private land-ownership and the power of big money".[328] Influenced by Marxism, during the revolution Mandela advocated scientific socialism,[329] although he denied being a communist during the Treason Trial.[330] Biographer David James Smith thought this untrue, stating that Mandela "embraced communism and communists" in the late 1950s and early 1960s, though was a "fellow traveller" rather than a party member.[331] In the 1955 Freedom Charter, which Mandela had helped create, it called for the nationalisation of banks, gold mines, and land, believing it necessary to ensure equal distribution of wealth.332 Despite these beliefs, Mandela nationalised nothing during his presidency, fearing that this would scare away foreign investors. This decision was in part influenced by the fall of the socialist states in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc during the early 1990s.[333]"
I don't agree with his political beliefs. Regardless, he was the equivalent of MLK in South Africa. Except he spent a long ass time in prison. I respect the shit out of him for standing up like that
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