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Document Details : Title: Amilcar Cabral's Conception of Justice Author(s): ALUMONA, Victor S. Journal: Ethical Perspectives Volume: 27 Issue: 1 Date: 2020 Pages: 9-34 DOI: 10.2143/EP.27.1.3288827 Abstract : The thrust of this article is to ascertain the conception of Justice Amilcar Cabral entertained as he fought for, and theorized about, the independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde. In the course of my research, I considered many of his thoughts to be standalone loci of Justice, but none was expansive enough to generate a robust conception of justice for all. I then endeavoured to string together, as it were, some of the crucial concepts, explicated heretofore, to determine whether Cabral’s conception of justice might emerge from this concatenation of prominent concepts in Cabral. These concepts include: mode of production as motive cause of history, here termed historical autochthony; citizenship arising from certain avowals and concessions; class suicide, comradeship, and so on. The conjunction of these concepts evidently creates a hub for justice known here as Rights Concessions among social Class interest Abnegators (RICOCAB), which, being a concentric conception of justice, is now the epicentre around which all the other rights, opportunities, and privileges articulate, requiring that any person in the new republic who wishes to enjoy these social goods, must first of all, trigger off RICOCAB in a society of democratic centralism and developmental nationalism. Even if run efficiently, the latter has potential on its low side to emasculate rights and justice in the lives of citizens. In conclusion this conception of Cabral’s justice is still a work in progress in terms of critical defence vis-à-vis other conceptions of justice. |
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