African Revolutionary Writers, Part 8c
Colonel Gaddafi as he was
Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar
Gaddafi led a small group of junior military officers in a
bloodless coup d'état in Libya against the pro-Imperialist King
Idris on 1 September 1969. When the second edition of this course went out he was
still the leader of his country. In the third edition we had to note that
Muammar Gaddafi was now dead, having been murdered, like so many others of our
African Revolutionary writers.
Libya is a large African country on the coast of the
Mediterranean Sea, West of Egypt and East of Tunisia. One used to say that
Libya was much more developed than before. But now Libya has been
“underdeveloped” in a catastrophic way.
Gaddafi and Mandela
We will still take Muammar Gaddafi as a writer. Writing
transcends human mortality.
Gaddafi’s 1975 “Green Book”, and especially the part on
“Democracy”, is a very useful text for discussion in study circles, because it
does not take bourgeois democracy for granted, but interrogates it, criticises
it severely and to a considerable extent, rejects it. This document is
attached.
Gaddafi was certainly an African Revolutionary Writer. In
the other, much more recent piece for the New York Times, attached and linked
below, Gaddafi set out a plain case for the “One-State Solution” in Palestine,
which is the same in principal as South Africa’s one-state solution (“One person
one vote in a unitary state”). This document is also attached.
Muammar Gaddafi recently
Muammar Gaddafi was a wise man and a humble Muslim man of
great energy, in spite of the sorrows that he has personally had to bear. He was
loved by the revolutionaries of Africa.
Between the first and second versions of this introduction, Libya was been bombed and invaded by forces of Britain, France and the USA. One of Gaddafi's sons and one of his grandchildren had been killed. This was on top of the daughter killed in the raid organised by Reagan and Thatcher in 1986. The Wikipedia entry on Muammar Gaddafi had been re-written to conform with Western propaganda.
Muammar Gaddafi did not retreat or run away. He stayed and
faced his terrible death.
We have touched on the question of Libya before in this series, in the item on Ruth First, which in turn is linked to a download from First's book on Gaddafi's Libya.
We have touched on the question of Libya before in this series, in the item on Ruth First, which in turn is linked to a download from First's book on Gaddafi's Libya.
- The above is to introduce
the original reading-texts: Muammar
Gaddafi, The Green Book, Part 1, on Democracy, 1975 and Muammar Gaddafi, The
One-State Solution, 2009.
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