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Title: | National liberation or socialism in East Africa? Some theoretical consideration |
Author: | Wanambisi, S.B. |
Year: | 1989 |
Periodical: | The African Review: A Journal of African Politics, Development and International Affairs (ISSN 0856-0056) |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 10-15 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Uganda Kenya Tanzania East Africa |
Subjects: | socialism ujamaa Imperialism, Colonialism political ideologies national liberation movements |
Abstract: | This is a paper delivered at the International Conference on the Arusha Declaration, Arusha, December 16-19, 1986. It examines the current situation of the world socialist movement and socialism in East Africa (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania). The author argues that in the present world in general, and East Africa in particular, there are no social forces discussing the liberation from wage labour exploitation, only those propagating a national liberation. Neither the so-called proletarian revolutions nor the dead-end, nonstarter, third road African socialist promulgations have proven themselves in practice. The result is that socialism has been transformed into a theory of economic development, a category properly belonging to the capitalist epoch. Yet because of imperialist exploitation and domination, and the resultant phenomenon of national oppression, national liberation still remains a possibility. Ref. |