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Patrice Lumumba
Patrice Lumumba
Born	Élias Okit'Asombo; 2 July 1925; Katakokombe, Congo-Kasaï, Belgian Congo
Died	17 January 1961 (aged 35); near Élisabethville, State of Katanga
Cause of death	Execution
Nationality	Congolese

Dialectics of nature
Dialectics of nature
Author	Friedrich Engels
Written in	1883
First published	1925 (posthumous)
Type	Book

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Patrice Émery Lumumba (alternatively styled Patrice Hemery Lumumba;^[1] 2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961) was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first Prime Minister of the independent Democratic Republic of the Congo (then Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960. He played a significant role in the transformation of the Congo from a colony of Belgium into an independent republic. Ideologically an African nationalist and pan-Africanist, he led the Congolese National Movement (MNC) party from 1958 until his assassination.

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Furthermore, every individual is originally native to some place based on historical relationship to a Community, and their membership to a Community is defined by a complex and nuanced interaction of lineage from that Community and their actual productive activity, their work. (...) We thus conclude that the indigenous question is the national question, and the national question is the indigenous question. The national question is a question of unity and of community and of people and of collectivism. The national question is a question of love, and Communism is all about the practical expression of the highest form of non-egoic, selfless love directed towards all humanity and all life: through service to the people a Communist demonstrates the principle: we want everyone to be well fed, to thrive, to be happy. In fact, the national struggle is also the class struggle, so the indigenous struggle is too a class struggle. For after all, every national and class struggle is a struggle for control and ownership of a state. If indigenous people are to liberate themselves, they must control the state. Yet at any given time, a state is controlled only by a specific class. Therefore, it is always a dictatorship of the proletariat representing the interests of the indigenous population that Communists should be struggling for and nothing less.

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Patrice Lumumba

Born	Élias Okit'Asombo 2 July 1925 Katakokombe, Congo-Kasaï, Belgian Congo
Died	17 January 1961 (aged 35) near Élisabethville, State of Katanga
Cause of death	Execution
Nationality	Congolese