The Arab Revolts and the Dialectics of the Global Redistribution Question: Lessons for Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

The victories of the national liberation movements from the defeats of the French in Vietnam in 1954 to that of the 1962 in Algeria and many others were very informative of the way independence was to be granted to the former colonies.  It is also the way the would-be ‘freed’ colonies were to be organised in the global division of labour.   Knowing fully well that the realisation problem was the inner loasic of colonisation of the underdeveloped societies assisted by ideological colorations of a “civilising mission” especially in Africa the colonialists would not let go their grips.  Apart from China, Vietnam, Cuba and Indonesia that struggled to free themselves to a certain degree through national colonial liberation, the rest of us remained tied to the apron string of the global material oppressive relations of imperialism.  In Indonesia, the progress achieved under Surkano was upturned by Suharto coup reconnecting Indonesia fully into the global material oppressive relations.  Thus the national liberation in all other countries where neo-colonialism or globalisation which kept fate with imperialism never progressed beyond paper independence but generated in purgatory revolutionary pressures of the uncompleted national colonial liberation struggles against neo-colonial globalisation which has been expressed in the Arab ‘revolts’.  This research work is, therefore, focused on the dialectics of the Arab  Revolts resulting from the global surplus redistribution question.  Our finding is that the Mohammed Bouazizi martyrdom is a product of structural violence of the global political economy in a struggle over Third World and indeed Arab surpluses.  This finding has a very serious implication for sub-Saharan Africa based on the same rentier political economy.

Keywords:             Dialectics, redistribution, imperialism, underdevelopement, disarticulation.