• purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      16 days ago

      Because he was installed by a military coup mainly organized by someone else, was in charge for 5 years, and then was killed by a second military coup organized by the same guy who organized the first one, dissolving the socialist government and replacing it with a capitalist one. If it was a ranking for speeches, Sankara gets top marks, but clearly there were some critical failures in his Marxism.