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| Title: | Party, State and Socialism in Guinea-Bissau |
| Author: | Chabal, Patrick |
| Year: | 1983 |
| Periodical: | Canadian Journal of African Studies |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pages: | 189-210 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Guinea-Bissau |
| Subjects: | political conditions socialism Politics and Government |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/484213 |
| Abstract: | Guinea Bissau's political development since independence in 1974 is analysed. In part 1, the author considers the political significance of a successful people's war to possible socialist transformation of society. Be then briefly examines the nature of the post-colonial state and its links with its colonial predecessor. In the second part, the author discusses the meaning and implication of socialism in Guinea Bissau within the context of the country's severe internal and external constraints. The author indicates how PAIGC's success during the war of national liberation allowed the party to establish a strong state at independence. However, the social and economic problems facing the new government provoked splits in the state apparatus and even in the party itself. These political contradictions reflect the difficulties of a consistent or even coherent socialist policy in a country where economic underdovelopment lack of resources, absence of a competent and relible administrative cadre, and bureaucratic rigidity, form serious obstacles to any socialist advance. The coup d'etat of November 1980 can be explained by the acuity of these contradictions and by the wish to resolve them by a return to 'the line of Cabral'. Notes, sum. in French. |
