You don't have access to this content. Please try to log in with your institution. Sign In
A truly socialist state is one in which all people are workers and in which neither capitalism nor feudalism exists. It does not have two classes of people, a lower class composed of people who work for their living and an upper class of people who live on the work of others. In a really socialist country no person exploits another; everyone who is physically able to work does so; every worker obtains a just return for the labour he performs; and the incomes derived from different types of work are not grossly divergent. In a socialist country, the only people who live on the work of others, and who have the right to be dependent upon their fellows, are small children, people who are too old to support themselves, the crippled, and those whom the state at any one time cannot provide with an opportunity to work for their living.
Contents
- “Hymn to the Nile” Year: ca. 1990–1950 BCE
- Nebmare-nakht: A Scribal Schoolbook Year: ca. 1550–1069 BCE
- Herodotus: “On Libya” Year: ca. 450–420 BCE
- Aristotle: Constitution of Carthage Year: ca. 320s BCE
- Inscription of Ezana Year: ca. 350
- Ibn Battuta: Travels in Asia and Africa Year: 1325–1354
- Nzinga Mbemba: Appeal to the King of Portugal Year: 1526
- Leo Africanus: The History and Description of Africa Year: 1526
- Alexander Falconbridge: An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa Year: 1788
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African Year: 1789
- Proposal for the Establishment of a Native Army Year: 1830
- Moshweshewe, Chief of the Basutos: Letter to Sir George Grey Year: 1858
- Constitution of the Fante Confederacy Year: 1871
- Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness Year: 1899
- Edmund Dene (E.D.) Morel: The Black Man’s Burden Year: 1920
- Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa Year: 1920
- A. B. Xuma: “Bridging the Gap between White and Black in South Africa”
- Jomo Kenyatta: “The Kenya Africa Union Is Not the Mau Mau” Year: 1952
- A. L. Geyer: “The Case for Apartheid” Year: 1953
- Proclamation of the Algerian National Liberation Front Year: 1954
- Freedom Charter of South Africa Year: 1955
- Patrice Lumumba: Speech at the Proclamation of Congolese Independence Year: 1960
- Kwame Nkrumah: I Speak of Freedom Year: 1961
- Arusha Declaration Year: 1967
- Yoruba Praise Poem to Sango Year: ca. 1970
- Steve Biko: “Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity” Year: 1973
- Desmond Tutu: “The Question of South Africa” Year: 1984
- Nelson Mandela: “We Have Waited Too Long for Our Freedom” Year: 1990
- Constitution of Rwanda Year: 1991
- Nelson Mandela: Inaugural Address Year: 1994
- Wole Soyinka: “Towards a Sustainable Vision of Nigeria”a Year: 1996
- UN Human Rights Report on Zaire Year: 1996
- Constitutive Act of the African Union Year: 2000