Re: ኢሕአፓ
I think, the glorious and tragic history of EPRP should be told and retold and it’s fallen heroes be remembered.
However, reviving it as a viable political party is a wrong discourse if that is the intention because EPRP sprang out of a fundamentally flawed political theory. And as much as it enlightened millions of young people, it’s also responsible for capturing and nurturing their misguided fervor and resulting in enormous bloodshed that wiped out a generation and caused a collective pain among families, neighborhoods, communities and the country at large. That social pain is still alive and it would be a big mistake to reactivate it by reincarnating the failed ideology of EPRP. I would rather see the founders and survivors participate in awakening and healing processes than run for political positions.
However, reviving it as a viable political party is a wrong discourse if that is the intention because EPRP sprang out of a fundamentally flawed political theory. And as much as it enlightened millions of young people, it’s also responsible for capturing and nurturing their misguided fervor and resulting in enormous bloodshed that wiped out a generation and caused a collective pain among families, neighborhoods, communities and the country at large. That social pain is still alive and it would be a big mistake to reactivate it by reincarnating the failed ideology of EPRP. I would rather see the founders and survivors participate in awakening and healing processes than run for political positions.
Re: ኢሕአፓ
Selam,
I disagree. You have to view EPRP in the context of its time and within the totality out of which it was made. It was not EPRP alone that caused the mutual destruction; it was the entire system of problems prevalent at the time. Every element of our society must share the blame.
As for its ideology, believe me that there is not a single former EPRP who now believes in Marxism Leninism. These are folks in their middle and senior years who are dead beat liberals and social democrat but with iron like commitment to the Ethiopian agenda. They are a great resource in the battle against the dysfunctional ethnocratic fallacy.
In my view they should be organized and create alliances with parties like EZEMA and other citizen based parties.
I disagree. You have to view EPRP in the context of its time and within the totality out of which it was made. It was not EPRP alone that caused the mutual destruction; it was the entire system of problems prevalent at the time. Every element of our society must share the blame.
As for its ideology, believe me that there is not a single former EPRP who now believes in Marxism Leninism. These are folks in their middle and senior years who are dead beat liberals and social democrat but with iron like commitment to the Ethiopian agenda. They are a great resource in the battle against the dysfunctional ethnocratic fallacy.
In my view they should be organized and create alliances with parties like EZEMA and other citizen based parties.