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Title:Towards the One-Party State in Zimbabwe: A Study in African Political Thought
Author:Shaw, William H.ISNI
Year:1986
Periodical:Journal of Modern African Studies
Volume:24
Issue:3
Pages:373-394
Language:English
Geographic term:Zimbabwe
Subjects:ZANU-PF
one-party systems
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.jstor.org/stable/160348
Abstract:This article presents the arguments of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Patriotic Front) in favour of one-party rule - the argument from tradition, the democratic majority argument, the unity argument, the critique of multiparty parliamentarianism - and the rebuttals this has provoked. Scrutinizing ZANU (PF)'s case for one-party rule from within its own Marxist political-theoretical framework, the author contends that Marxist theory does not dictate such a system of government, and that viewed from this perspective the arguments for it are flawed and the party's faith in it is problematic. Notes, ref.
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