The original distinctiveness of Sankarist thought lies in having simultaneously attacked three pillars of structural oppression: imperialist dependence, through the outright rejection of international public debt, defined as a “neocolonial instrument of reconquest and the economic assassination of peoples”; the internal class structure and bureaucratic rent, through the dismantling of the privileges of the parasitic state bourgeoisie—nourished by French aid funds and disconnected from the material needs of the peasant masses; and patriarchal oppression.

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