By: Aramis Sundiata
My loyalty is to the truth, no matter what, and that loyalty is forged in the crucible of our historical condition in the West. Too often, people misunderstand my position, assuming that selective agreement with a statement from a socialist, leftist, or any other faction means I am aligned with them. I cannot stress this enough: I am not an ally to any group—neither friend or enemy. I am an African revolutionary and an independent witness. My commitment is to our struggle and to bearing honest witness, even when it means setting aside personal biases or risking alienation from any group.
There is a crucial distinction in my approach: I am not neutral, but I am impartial. Neutrality is nonjudgmental detachment, a refusal to take a stand. Impartiality is something else entirely—it is the willingness to judge based on facts, not loyalties. When I speak out against injustices—whether against our people or any minority group I am not advocating for those groups as an act of coalition building. I am highlighting wrongdoing as a matter of truth. My stance is not about allegiance, but about principle.
Western political factions—whether left, right, or center operate more like high school cliques than serious people engaged in our struggle. They are obsessed with group identity, social proof, and the comfort of belonging. Loyalty to the group becomes more important than loyalty to the truth. Dissent is punished, and those who refuse to conform are ostracized or destroyed. Movements and thinkers are sacrificed on the altar of ideological unity, and the truth is the first casualty.
In Western epistemology, truth is too often established by popularity and consensus, not by objective standards. Activists and groups care more about finding allies than about finding what is right. Truth becomes instrumentalized as a tool or a weapon to be used when convenient and discarded when it no longer serves the group’s interests. This is the factional loyalty trap: ideological conformity is demanded, even among those the group claims to liberate. Pro-resistance movements end up replicating the very colonial mentality and dynamics they claim to oppose, silencing dissent for the sake of unity.
What is often called “solidarity” is, in practice, the institutionalization of dishonesty. Real solidarity does not require the suppression of truth. It does not demand that we look away from wrongdoing simply because it comes from within our own ranks. When truth is sacrificed for the sake of group loyalty, the movement becomes hollow, and the moral failures of Western civilization—concealed by its rhetoric and self-image—are reproduced in miniature. This is why I say what I say. My position is not about neutrality or allegiance, but about applying principles of truth impartially, regardless of who is involved. We must challenge ourselves to value truth over factional loyalty, to recognize the pervasive moral failures that Western civilization hides behind its rhetoric, and to refuse to become complicit in the same dynamics we claim to resist.
If we are to build anything real, anything lasting, we must hold ourselves to objective standards. We must be loyal to the truth, even when it is uncomfortable, even when it costs us allies, even when it means standing alone. That is the only way to break free from the traps of Western groupthink and factionalism. That is the only way to build an organization worthy of the name. Let us continue
