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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Afrocommunism Ten Years After: Crippled But Alive |
Author: | Ottaway, Marina |
Year: | 1987 |
Periodical: | Issue |
Volume: | 16 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 11-17 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ethiopia Angola Mozambique |
Subjects: | Marxism Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1166412 |
Abstract: | In 1977, Ethiopia, Angola and Mozambique officially embraced Marxism-Leninism. The three countries diverged, yet each tried to implement the same Marxist-Leninist blueprint, which required organizing a strong, centralized, tightly-knit vanguard party, which could in turn be used to push a politically immature population into the collective economic organization needed to provide the economic underpinnings of a true socialist State. This economic organization was also expected to provide the mechanism through which economic development could be generated. Ten years after its official inception, Afrocommunism is still developing in Ethiopia, but is stalled in Angola and Mozambique. The question why Ethiopia seems more successful in implementing the Marxist-Leninist blueprint than the other two countries cannot be answered clearly. It would appear that a concurrence of structural conditions and accidental developments in the end led to the present situation. |