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Western Boogeyman Remembered: Qaddafi’s Achievements and Pan-African Hopes

- by Bruce Lerro - Leave a Comment
Twenty five or thirty years ago suppose we asked you which country in the world has no foreign debt? This  country deposited its profits from oil into the bank accounts of its citizens. This same country had free, good quality healthcare, free education, rent free housing and free electricity. Sweden? Norway? Denmark? The answer is…Libya. Not only did Muammar Qaddafi promote these things, but he strove for a United States of Africa and wanted to get Africa away from using the dollar. This is why capitalists the world over hated him.
Image from The Sydney Morning Herald

About Bruce Lerro

Bruce Lerro has taught for 25 years as an adjunct college professor of psychology at Golden Gate University, Dominican University and Diablo Valley College. He has applied a Vygotskian socio-historical perspective to his five books: "From Earth-Spirits to Sky-Gods: the Socio-ecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism and Hyper-Abstract Reasoning", "Power in Eden: The Emergence of Gender Hierarchies in the Ancient World" (co-authored with Christopher Chase-Dunn), "Social Change: Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present", "Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized", and "The Magickal Enchantment of Materialism: Why Marxists Need Neopaganism". He is also a representational artist specializing in pen-and-ink drawings. Bruce is a libertarian communist and lives in Olympia, WA.

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