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After reading his bio in Wikipedia he does seem like a martyr to me. Ryszard Kapuściński, jugding by his first and last name, seems to be disqualified to be wr
by thriftwy 3y ago
After reading his bio in Wikipedia he does seem like a martyr to me.
Ryszard Kapuściński, jugding by his first and last name, seems to be disqualified to be writing about ethiopian rules on account of heavy conflict of interests.
- hutzlibu 3y agoIf that is your take, ok. But maybe you should read more about Kapuściński than his name, because I do think he was qualified to write about power and oppression. No matter the skin color.
- thriftwy 3y agoI would very much like to hear from him his detailed opinion on notorious communists Dzerzhinsky, Menzhinsky and Vyshinsky (not sure what is the correct Polish spelling) before anything else.
- hutzlibu 3y agoHe is not alive anymore, so he cannot tell you. And regarding about what he thought about those people, you can really find in any of his books. But like other people already hinted at you: the book about Haile Selassi was mainly a attack on his corrupt system back at home. By examining the power mechanisms and corruption of King Selassis court(and publishing it step by step) he managed to publish a antiauthorian criticism on corrupted buerocracy in general, in such a corrupted system. But he could do so, because when critizized from above he said: "Do you want to imply, that this corrupt monarchist court is comparable to our democratic peoples republic elected comitees?" Which they could not admit, even though they understood how it was meant, because yes, they were just as corrupt. Unchecked power works the same in a monarchy, than it does in socialism or anywhere else. He simply hated corruption and opression and he lived voluntarily among the poorest of the planet, to write about their lives and their struggles.
- thriftwy 3y agoThis sounds like a load of bullshit. We are talking about sub-Sakharan Africa. "Corruption" is a very underwhelming accusation in the land of racial segregation, endless wars, genocides and hyperinflation on wheelbarrows-of-banknotes scale. I also do not care about all that signalling nonsense.
- OneDonOne 3y ago> We are talking about sub-Sakharan Africa [...] the land of racial segregation, endless wars, genocides and hyperinflation on wheelbarrows-of-banknotes scale. Citation needed.
- hutzlibu 3y agoDude. You are free to keep your knowledge about things without reading about them, if you like. I don't actually know what your point here is at all, except that you want to continue worship or admire Selassi because he happened to be black?
- ch4s3 3y agoWhat does being Polish have to do with writing a book about Haile Selassie? It's sort of written on the tin that the book is used a sort of a mirror to reflect the absurdity of communist rule on Poland, but where is the "conflict of interests"? The book is drawn from interviews and primary sources.
- thriftwy 3y agoPolish are firebrand catholic christians, whereas Ethiopia is a notable orthdox christian country. So unless you are going to fact check every single claim in the book, I'd skip it.
- ch4s3 3y agoDo you know anything at all about Ryszard Kapuściński? The guy reported on 27 coups and rebellions on the ground and there are some criticisms of his work but none based on religion. It's not even clear that Kapuściński was catholic, he was born in Belarus. This sort of blanket dismissal based on ethnicity or presumed religious affiliation is just stupid and doesn't belong here.
- thriftwy 3y agoAlmost everything you get to read about history ranges from heavy spin to bullshit. A good example of that is how English (mainland and colonist) got to badmouth Spanish handling of natives whereas their own deeds were an order of magnitude worse, until very recently. Disregard the message and examine the messenger.
- ch4s3 3y agothis is just nonsense.