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Title:The Political Economy of Mauritania: Imperialism and Class Struggle
Author:Bennoune, Mahfoud
Year:1978
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:5
Issue:12
Period:May-August
Pages:31-52
Language:English
Geographic term:Mauritania
Subjects:economic conditions
economic dependence
Economics and Trade
Politics and Government
colonialism
international relations
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056247808703359
Abstract:This article explores the way that colonial exploitation conditioned the political, social and economic life of Mauritanian rural and urban communities. It shows how a neocolonial State was formed for the specific purpose not only of continuing colonial plunder under a new institutional arrangement but of intensifying the exploitation of Mauritanian workers for the benefit of multinational corporations, with far-reaching and even tragic socioeconomic consequences for the majority of the Mauritanian people. A first section analyses the characteristic features of the indigenous precolonial social formation which was composed of at least two distinct modes of production: pastoral nomadism and sedentary agriculture articulated by trade. The second delineates the socioeconomic changes brought about by the penetration of capitalist social relations of production under a colonial form. The third section, the main focus, analyses the emergence and development of a neocolonial State. Bibliogr., notes.
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