Tuesday 28 July 2015

Progressive Nationalism: Primus Inter Pares.

I am a Zimbabwean (and will always be).
Having been unable, of necessity, to talk about Zimbabwe for the past few years, I am now able to discuss Zimbabwe in explicit terms. I can now tell everyone where I really stand politically in Zimbabwe. My (re)entry into explicitly discussing all things Zimbabwean will be focused by one question, and one question only: does it serve Zimbabwe? Hence, Progressive Nationalism

Progressive Nationalism is the simple idea that everything that a Zimbabwean does should privilege Zimbabwe in its standing among nations. For example, how does externalization of wealth serve Zimbabwe? Will Zimbabwe be held in high esteem because it has people who are proficient at externalization of wealth?

Politicians will try to expropriate this long standing idea of mine for their political campaigns and what-have-you but, here, on this platform, I have the scales to weigh whether their actions match their grand pronouncements. This is what this platform will do initially; scan past, present and (likely) future actions by Zimbabweans as well as other nationalities, and from that mosaic, extract what is useful and what is harmful to Zimbabwe.

But that's not all, because, as Aristotle already told us in Nichomacean Ethics, the end of political science is action not knowledge. 

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