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Title:Hegemonic projects, accumulation strategies and State reform policy in South Africa
Authors:Morris, M.ISNI
Padayachee, VishnuISNI
Year:1989
Periodical:Labour, Capital and Society
Volume:22
Issue:1
Pages:65-109
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subject:political change
Abstract:A variety of contradictions and conflicts within capital and between the State and the popular classes coalesced in the late 1970s and early 1980s causing an economic and political crisis within South African society. It became clear that the narrow strictures of apartheid policy could no longer provide the social basis for political stability and sustained further accumulation. Hence a new discourse of limited 'reform' began to be articulated by 1979. The purpose of this 'reform policy' was to ensure maximum division and differentiation of the popular classes. The State attempted, from 1979 until 1983-1984, to implement this with very little success however. The result was a new reform initiative, characterized by 'inward industrialization', 'deregulation', and 'orderly urbanization'. This article analyses the South African reform process, using the concepts of 'accumulation strategy' and 'hegemonic project' which are derived from the French regulation school. Accumulation strategies are defined as societally projected policies aimed at economic restructuring, hegemonic projects as societally projected policies aimed at concretely resolving particular conflicting (primarily class) interests by defining a socially accepted national general interest. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. in French.
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