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Title: | Post-Apartheid South Africa: Constraints on Socialism |
Author: | Southall, Roger J. |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
Volume: | 25 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 345-374 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | future socialism Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/161017 |
Abstract: | Few observers reckon that the white citadel will fall overnight, yet the days of racial minority rule in South Africa are now widely assumed to be running out. The ambition of this article is to provide a framework for consideration of whether a nonracial South Africa could or will be socialist. How should an incoming régime, formally committed to socialism, use State power to achieve a transition to socialism on the basis of a likely incomplete, or stalled, revolution? This question is examined using Gordon WHITE's overview of 'Revolutionary socialist development in the Third World' (1983). A number of envisaged problems is outlined by considering development strategy, the State, economic management, the international dimension, relations of production, and social issues. It is suggested that any transition to socialism will be enormously problematic, and that attempts to resolve the dilemmas encountered could well compromise socialism's relation to democracy. Notes, ref. |