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Title: | Moscow and Pretoria: a new course? |
Author: | Gann, L.H. |
Year: | 1989 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 341-346 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa Soviet Union |
Subjects: | foreign policy South African Communist Party |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/160854 |
Abstract: | There are signs that the Soviet Union may no longer prove to be as faithful a supporter of the South African Communist Party (SACP) as in the past. The revolutionary struggle, up to now, has not gone well. Orthodox Marxist-Leninists have cause for questioning the SACP's own analysis of South Africa, because the economy has long ceased to be 'colonial'. South Africa's economy, in Marxist-Leninist terms, is now in fact of the advanced capitalist variety. The Soviet Union has other reasons for looking at the SACP in a critical fashion: the leadership of the SACP has remained in the hands of the old cadre, who are not the kind of activists who respond well to 'glasnost' and 'perestroika'. Besides, Moscow has always been more ambivalent towards the apartheid State than its propaganda would indicate. Given their country's own problems, the time might well come for Soviet policymakers to rethink Moscow's future relations with Pretoria - this at a juncture when the United States and South Africa are drifting apart. Notes, ref. |