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Title: | Ghana: The Failure of a Petty-Bourgeois Experiment |
Author: | Ninsin, Kwame Akon |
Year: | 1982 |
Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
Volume: | 7 |
Issue: | 3 |
Period: | July-September |
Pages: | 37-67 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ghana |
Subjects: | coups d'état 1981 middle class Economics and Trade Development and Technology Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43657734 |
Abstract: | December 31, 1981, Ghana's People's National Party Government led by Dr. Hilla T.Limann was toppled in a coup d'etat and replaced by a Provisional National Defence Council led by FIt. Lt. J.J. Rawlings. Developments following its latest overthrow appear to suggest the end to attempts since 1966 to rebuild and consolidate the petty-bourgeois social order. This suggestion does not grasp and expose, present-ting December 31 as if it were a historical aberration, the historical affinity between the event of December 31 and its predecessors. The author attempts to show that 1) the coup of December 31, 1981, was possible because by then the petty-bourgeois state had been weakened by its own internal contradictions, and 2) these contradictions had been sharpened the more since 1966 through the persistent mediation of the petty-bourgeois state which is an affirmation of its historic role of facilitating the domination of the national economy by imperialism. Notes, ref., sum. in French, tab. |