Thread by @ProfJNMoyo

1/24 ON 7 SEPT 2021, I reported that three key branches of the #CIO have joined hands with ZanuPF to launch a deadly #Twitterbots campaign👇🏿.

https://twitter.com/ProfJNMoyo/status/1435134574347100164?s=19

There's more to say about the CIO/ZanuPF campaign; first let me explain this👇🏿proposition!

https://twitter.com/ProfJNMoyo/status/1436009121992560640?s=19

2/24 THE IDEA that many grown up kids of ZanuPF parents are more ZanuPF than their parents is a social reality evidenced everywhere you find Zimbabweans, including in these streets. It's not that the grown up kids are more ZanuPF as members or supporters, than their parents; no!

3/24 BEING ZANUPF is not about membership or supportership; rather it's about one's mindset, interpersonal or interactive disposition and level of consciousness. Put differently, it's about one's pervasive mentality or general orientation and style of engagement on public issues!

4/24 THE ZANUPF mindset is based on a stockholder mentality, which itself is based on an ideology of entitlement which presumes a political dichotomy between "Vene Vazvo" or "abanikazi" (Stockholders) and "Mafikizolos" (the Johnny come lately). It's an awfully corrosive mindset!

5/24 THE THING about political parties is that by definition, their membership is limited in number & insignificant, as a proportion of the population. China's Communist Party has about 95 million members out of over 1,4 billion people. ZanuPF has about 500,000 out of 15 million!

6/24 BECAUSE THEIR membership is limited, political parties use hegemonic approaches to push their ideologies, strategies & policies to keep or get political power. Through hegemonic approaches, parties expose what they see as "good" ideas, values or polices; versus the "bad"!

7/24 IN ZIMBABWE, thanks to ZanuPF, hegemonic approaches of political parties are not based on good ideas, values & policies versus the bad ones; they're based on good people versus bad people. This is the essence of the ZanuPF mindset or mentality; it is about people, not ideas!

8/24 IN ZIMBABWE, political parties have words for good & bad people. In ZanuPF, good people are "comrades"; while bad people are "sellouts", who must either be shunned or dealt with. In the MDC, good people are "machinja" or whatever & bad people are "maZanu" or "opportunists:!

9/24 "SELLOUTS" in ZanuPF & "opportunists" in the MDC are equivalent terms of disapproval, demonization & dismissal or ostracization. The prevalence of the terms & the intolerant entitlement or stockholder mentality behind them, is evidence of the Zanufication of the Opposition!

10/24 A MAJOR reason for the Zanufication of the Opposition is that, when assessed on the basis of Paulo Freire's consciousness-template, the organisational and operative conciousness of political parties in Zimbabwe lies between PRIMITIVE consciousness and MASS consciousness!

11/24 WHEREAS primitive consciousness is INSTINCTIVE, takes things at their face value, based on PRIMORDIAL affinities such as clans, tribes & so in; mass consciousness is based on shared & unifying beliefs, norms, attitudes & prejudices that lead to collective or GROUPTHINK!

12/24 IN CONTRAST with primitive or primordial consciousness, there's CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, which is KNOWLEDGE BASED & requires (1) a CRITICAL understanding of the dominant system & its structures in society; (2) the development of power & agency to DISRUPT & change the SYSTEM!

13/24 GROWN UP kids of ZanuPF parents are more ZanuPF than their parents because their response to ZanuPF is PRIMORDIAL, thus INSTINCTIVE; it's not KNOWLEDGE-BASED or informed by CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS; hence it's reactive against PERSONS & not revolutionary; against the SYSTEM!

14/24 IT IS in the context of the foregoing, that I base the thesis that grown up kids of ZanuPF parents are more ZanuPF than their parents. Yes, they reject ZanuPF as a party; but no, they don't have a HIGHER or ALTERNATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS; they're more EXTREME than their parents!

15/24 WITH THE above in mind, back to the #CIO #Twitterbots; their approach is to SCATTER the Opposition writ large & to CAUSE MAYHEM in it; through its Internal Branch Twitter bots, Counterintelligence Branch Twitter bots, Research Branch Twitter bots and ZanuPF Twitter bots!

16/24 WHEREAS ORDINARILY, the #CIO branches operate separately, independent of one another, they're currently working under a unified set of procedures on @Twitter, which the #CIO, after extensive research, has identified as the most critical battle ground for the 2023 elections!

17/24 THE JOINT OPERATION by #CIO branches started recently & gained steam after the Zambian elections which proved the power of @Twitter in political messaging. So far, the operation has targeted @daddyhope, @zenzele, @waltermzembi, @Hon_Kasukuwere, @PedzisaiRuhanya & this TL!

18/24 SO FAR THE MODUS OPERANDI of the operation is to pit well known Opposition figures with a stockholder syndrome; against the "mafikizolos", who don't have historical opposition credentials but are vocal on @Twitter and have been agitating for Opposition 2023-Election Unity!

19/24 THE OPERATION'S massive ghost accounts & bots are infrastructured by Chinese hardware & Israeli software. The accounts, some created over the last three years & most over the last three months--like @ChimeneMandi--generate vitriolic content for likes, retweets etc by bots!

20/24 THE OBJECTIVE OF THE OPERATION is to instigate & foster CONFRONTATIONAL relationships in the Opposition ranks between the puritanical stockholders, who want an Opposition dominated by the MDC-A; and the venturesome mafikizolos, who want a broader and diversified opposition!

21/24 THE VITRIOLIC MESSAGING, seeks to cause intra-opposition conflict at the level of "primitive consciousness", based on primordial, political instincts in order to fuel a divisive "mass consciousness" in the Opposition, ahead of the 2023 election. Thus, it must be RESISTED!

22/24 AS MAX WEBERIANS know, the best way to change society is through organized praxis. In Zimbabwe, the opposition is unlikely to dislodge ZanuPF with a ZanuPF mindset that employs ZanuPF stockholder tactics of entitlement; at the level of instinctive, PRIMORDIAL CONSCIOUSNESS!

23/24 WHAT IS NEEDED in Zimbabwe today is POLITICS BY OBJECTIVES; that is to say purposive political action informed by clear objectives; through a COALITION OF THE WILLING and ABLE organizations, individuals and associate partners ; not an ALLIANCE OF THE BELONGING, like-minded!

24/24 THE FIRST & MOST important STRATEGIC question for a COALITION OF THE WILLING & able is not WHO should be in it but WHAT IS TO BE DONE, HOW by WHO, with WHAT & WHEN. This should form an ELECTORAL PACT on HOW to win; HOW to govern & HOW to win the election after the first!