Abstract

This work highlights the Haitian sociopolitical economic organization, Lakous, as a form of libertarian communism that must be vertically integrated at the nation-state level so that people can experience total freedom from capitalist relations of production. I conclude the work by extrapolating the lakou system to the world-system level in order to offer it as an alternative to the Protestant capitalist world-system, which threatens all life on earth.

Highlights

  • Two forms of system and social integration would structure the material resource framework of Haiti after independence, the Vodou Ethic and the spirit of communism on the one hand; and the Catholic/Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism on the other

  • I this work I extrapolate the lakou system of the Africans to the world-system level, the global lakousystem, in order to offer it as an alternative to the Protestant capitalist world-system, which threatens all life on earth, in the midst of the labor exploitation and climate change problematics caused by the latter

  • Mocombe (2016) out of Haitian epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism—the understanding here is that Haitian practical consciousness is a product of two opposing social structures

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Introduction

Two forms of system and social integration would structure the material resource framework of Haiti after independence, the Vodou Ethic and the spirit of communism on the one hand; and the Catholic/Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism on the other. The majority, two-thirds, of the social actors who would come to constitute the Haitian nation-state were African-born amongst a minority of mulattoes, gens de couleur, creole, and petit-bourgeois blacks (Affranchis) on the island interpellated, embourgeoised, and differentiated by the language, communicative discourse, modes of production, ideology, and ideological apparatuses of the West (the Catholic/Protestant Ethic and the spirit of capitalism social class language game). As such, given their interpellation and embourgeoisement via the language (French), communicative discourse, modes of production (slavery, agribusiness, mercantilism, etc.), ideology (liberalism, individualism, personal wealth, capitalism, racialism, private property, Protestant Ethic, etc.), and ideological apparatuses (churches, schools, prisons, plantations, police force, army, etc.) of the West, the latter, Affranchis, became “blacks,” dialectically, seeking to recursively (re) organize and reproduce the ideas www.cribfb.com/journal/index.php/aijssr

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