The president of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement attacks intellectuals who dare not fight for freedom, claiming they must maintain a neutral stance.
The national president of the Cameroon Renaissance Movement (MRC) counter-attacks his detractors. Those who, hiding behind their intellectual affiliation, do not take a critical and assumed political stance. Abstaining from engaging in the fight against abuses such as injustice and dictatorship, they use the pretext of the obligation of neutrality of an ”intellectual, an objective free thinker” in the face of these democratic abuses which, according to Maurice Kamto, should be ”fought mercilessly”.
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In his thought of the day this Monday, the politician intends to denounce the intellectual who prescribes what should be done and what should not be done, refusing to engage in common struggles to conquer spaces of expression. This is ”aerial intellectualism” which, according to Maurice Kamto, is an ”aesthetic of poison that claims not to like water. It is also cheap individualism,” asserts the university professor who, through this platform, attempts to give new meaning to the word and a new activity to intellectuals. Rather than holding back in the face of what compromises collective well-being, those who belong to the intellectual elite have a completely different mission according to the academic’s thinking.
Their activity is part of ”assumed collective action, carried out without prevarication in the name of common values of dignity, justice, and responsibility. We are not destined to be slaves or subjects. Once this essential truth has been formulated, we no longer spend time rehashing it; we act to make it a reality in the course of our common existences,”, writes the politician.
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Responding to those who, recently, have found ways to downgrade him from the ranks of serious Cameroonian politicians. As if he were going to provide clarifications for all his positions in an environment where citizens are increasingly critical and demanding, expressing themselves freely using sometimes harsh phrases. ”Maurice Kamto is not a political leader; he’s a good joker,” a panelist said during a television debate a week ago.
