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Title: | The role of the party in socialist construction: the case of CCM in Tanzania |
Authors: | Mushokolwa, L.M. Kyulule, V.L. |
Year: | 1983 |
Periodical: | Taamuli: a Political Science Forum |
Volume: | 13 |
Pages: | 9-24 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Tanzania |
Subjects: | CCM socialism ujamaa |
Abstract: | Party politics in Tanzania for socialism or otherwise has been a result of two dialectically related issues: the nature of the historical contradictions in Tanganyika and the emergent classes; and the rise of the Maoist (pluralistic) ideology whereby the party has actually come to act as the control arm of the executive, through which the government legitimizes its policies and wherein the party also acts as a medium through which consensus politics are enacted and the peoples' discontent is absorbed. Neither TANU nor ASP emerged as a result of class struggle with working class ideology. Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), born in 1976 after TANU and ASP had been disbanded, has not managed to liquidate the inherent contradiction of the Tanzanian neocolonial social formation either, revolutionary rhetoric notwithstanding. There is a need for CCM to change party membership and leadership, replacing petit-bourgeois tendencies so that the worker-peasant element dominates. Ref. |