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President Mugabe: Zimbabweans do not hate you, they just love their country better

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Zimbabwe and Britain share an unbreakable historical link. It is Britain that placed Zimbabwe under the yoke of colonialism, it is Britain that reinstated Zimbabwe’s independence. It is the same Britain that is at the centre of Zimbabwe‘s current situation.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth with President Mugabe of Zimbabwe and his wife, pose for photographers after being the Queen’s guest at Buckingham Palace 05 March.Mugabe has been in London for an investment conference at the head of a government delegation.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth with President Mugabe of Zimbabwe and his wife, pose for photographers after being the Queen’s guest at Buckingham Palace 05 March.Mugabe has been in London for an investment conference at the head of a government delegation.

The longevity of the relationship makes Britain an active player in the nation’s domestic and foreign policy framework.

This unhealthy relationship has its many moments of madness!

Check this out! On Fleet street, home to Britain‘s tabloid establishment, events such as Zimbabwe‘s independence anniversary ought to make a good story, a story that celebrates Britain’ success as a decolonising power.” The story of a nation that once subjugated weaker nations, an empire that once conquered for the purpose of monopolising a huge chunk of weaker territories.

It is assumed that upon realizing that every nation has a divine right to choose its destiny, Britain embarked on the path of granting colonies independence.

Surely, sounds of this historical juncture ought to reverberate in the palaces of Westminster, it ought to carry heart-warming stories of an enduring bilateral relationship.

Millions expect to read newspaper headlines marking the anniversary of such milestones. To our disappointment, this wasn’t the case. There was no moment of silence for those who perished defending the crown and those who lost their lives fighting for majority rule. Such is our relationship.

On the day to mark the 34th anniversary of Zimbabwe‘s independence, Britain took a step backward, they watched carefully from a distance. As expected, President Mugabe made loud noises seeking attention, he bemoaned Winston Churchill‘s epoch, the post- world war II period.

An era of transatlantic negotiations that resulted in the ultimate sacrifice, that death of direct rule (colonialism) and the birth of capital imperialism. The soliloquy did not suit the audience, it was not digital tunes to the ears of a young generation of capitalist who rule Britain today. Defence mechanisms were deployed in defence and onslaught.

It goes without saying that shortly after President Mugabe‘s disapproval of young “ruffians” at Westminster, Fleet street crafted stories denouncing the way President Mugabe is governing Zimbabwe. One story carried the headline – Tyrant Mugabe launches tirade against Britain: “The country has gone to the dogs.”

From this headline and others similar to it-we can see that British policies in Zimbabwe haven’t moved an inch since Disraeli? Yes, the tactics have changed but the policy remains the same. It is true that the British do not hate President Mugabe, Britain is simply safe guarding her interests.

Why does President Mugabe “pity” the queen?

In 2012, Britain marked the queen‘s diamond jubilee, there were celebrations across the country illustrating the public’s appreciation of her unwavering commitment during her reign. Contrary to President Mugabe ‘s words, Britain has never had it so Good.” President Mugabe must not run away from the piercing truth- The truth is- Britain does not hate Zimbabwe, she only “loves” her subjects better.

Britain exhibits this “love” through a complicated global economic and financial system whose main pillar is capital imperialism. It is true today what Lenin stated a century ago, that “capitalism has grown into a world system of colonial oppression and of the financial strangulation of the overwhelming majority of the population of the world by a handful of “advanced” countries. This is achieved through the export of capital.”

The export of capital, one of the most essential economic bases of imperialism strengthens the British bourgeois class (middle class)’s grip on the means of production, strengthens their position in the world and sets the seal of parasitism on the whole country that lives by exploiting the labour and resources of several overseas countries.”

Is this not the battle confronting us? This is the first point of our difficulties. Does President Mugabe think that Britain will act against the interests of her capitalist and middle class, the very powerbase of her nation? Hahahaha.

Will it enlighten you to note that leading British bourgeois politicians were opposed to colonial policy? They preferred indirect rule because it is cheaper and more profitable.

It is not without interest to observe that back then these leading British bourgeois politicians saw the connection between what might be called the purely economic and the socio-political roots of modern imperialism. Are these the values that President Mugabe is referring to when he talks about Churchill?  Talk about delusions! Hahahaha

To comprehend the full extent of modern day imperialism, we must listen to the words of Cecil John Rhodes. We are informed by his intimate friend, Stead, that Cecil expressed his imperialist views in the following terms: “I was in the East End of London (a working-class quarter) yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were a cry for ‘bread! bread!’ and on my way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism….”

“ My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war, you must become imperialists,” Rhodes stated.

So in this case, are we not moved to ask what President Mugabe will do to save the 16,000,000 inhabitants of Zimbabwe?

As far as Britain is concerned, the denunciation of Robert Mugabe’s policies is at the core of its foreign policy in Zimbabwe. To a significant extent, Zimbabwe‘s political difficulties threatens Britain‘s capitalists and bourgeois class economic interests. The truth is, they don’t hate Zimbabweans, they love their country better.

In this way, Britain is echoing the voices of its powerbase. Disgruntled British capitalists and middle class are concerned about Zimbabwe‘s viability. That’s all, nothing else! The West will not let go until Zanu PF genuflect in respect to the masters of capitalism.

What was agreed at Lancaster House between the Iron lady, Mrs Thatcher and President Robert Mugabe must be observed, so goes the thinking behind Britain anti- Zanu PF stanza. That lady was not for turning. She did not hate Zimbabweans, she just loved her country better. Are we making a fuss when we make such loud cries?

In 1918, Lenin wrote as if he was inspired. “An enormous “surplus of capital” has arisen in the advanced countries. As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will be utilised for the purpose of increasing profits by exporting capital abroad to backward countries. In these backward countries profits are usually high, for capital is scarce, the price of land is relatively low, wages are low, raw materials are cheap.

“The export of capital is made possible by a number of backward countries having already been drawn into world capitalist intercourse; main railways have either been or are being built in those countries, elementary conditions for industrial development have been created, etc. The need to export capital arises from the fact that in a few countries capitalism has become “overripe.”

Call it what you will, it makes no difference. The essence of the matter is that African States like Zimbabwe are profitable fields of capital imperialism if they abide by the rules of the system.

The rules are deep rooted in the notion that capitalism must be protected, promulgated and advanced to ease class tensions in Europe and the US. For this to be achieved high interests loans and concessions favourable to the capitalist nations are forced upon African nations. Profits from this financial sorcery are shared between the capitalists and the bourgeoisie class.

In 1902, a book by the English economist J. A. Hobson, Imperialism, was published in London and New York. Hobson stated that “new imperialism differs from the older, first, in substituting for the ambition of a single growing empire the theory and the practice of “competing empires”, each motivated by similar lusts of political aggrandisement and commercial gain.

Hobson provided reinforcements to his thoughts by outlining the concept of economic parasitism. “There is first the habit of economic parasitism, by which the ruling state has used its provinces, colonies, and dependencies in order to enrich its ruling class and to bribe its lower classes into acquiescence. You ask me what the English workers think about colonial policy. Well, exactly the same as they think about politics in general. There is no workers’ party here, there are only Conservatives and Liberal-Radicals, and the workers gaily share the feast of England’s monopoly of the world market.”

To cement Hobson’s argument, it must be stated that there is no labour party in Britain, no Tony Blairs- Britain is a Conservative country that occasionally votes labour. And the Conservatives ‘raison d’etre is to preserve the best of British whilst holding back the revolutionary hoards.

You ask me what Britain thinks about President Mugabe‘s rhetoric. Well, exactly the same way they think about Iraq, Marikana and the rest of events around the globe that pose threat to her capitalists interests.

If President Mugabe is a patriot, he should not concern himself with Britons sex preferences or his feelings for the queen or Churchill‘s values.  Instead, President Mugabe must focus his attention on eradicating corruption, incompetence and devising best methods of allocating resources and rents to growth-promoting actors.

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