Nelson Mandela was a Communist. Although most people think that is not important, it is the very essence of who he was. He never denounced Communism. He never apologized for embracing Communism. He never exposed the soul-destroying nature of Communism. In this Mandela was like Mugabe, the horrific Marxist leader of Zimbabwe, though he was not grossly evil like Mugabe. Was Mandela a Communist because he needed Communism to end the Afrikaner white rule of South Africa? No: Communism was not needed to fight the very real racist legacy of European colonialism.
