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Title: | Of Monsters and Devils, Analyses and Alternatives: Changing Black South African Perceptions of Capitalism and Socialism |
Author: | Hirschmann, David |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society |
Volume: | 89 |
Issue: | 356 |
Period: | July |
Pages: | 341-369 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | ideologies capitalism socialism Development and Technology Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/722372 |
Abstract: | While there remain large differences between President De Klerk's vision of a new society and that of the main black organizations, South Africa does appear to be moving toward a period of political negotiation. This article, which is based on interviews with black South Africans, argues that, over the last ten or fifteen years of the struggle for black freedom, there has been growing black resentment toward the capitalist system and an increasingly positive interest in socialism, and that this ideological change will make itself felt in the negotiations. The author discusses a few explanations which appear to provide a key to understanding this ideological change: the depth and breadth of poverty among large segments of the black population; the connection between the oppression of the apartheid system and the exploitation of the economic system; the insistence on a nonracial strategy; the growing number of visible black beneficiaries of the system; the change in the intellectual climate; the emergence of the youth in the struggle; and the growth in trade union influence. Notes, ref. |