People's power: the case of Mozambique

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Title:	People's power: the case of Mozambique
Author:	Egero, B.
Book title:	Africa: Problems in the Transition to Socialism
Year:	1986
Pages:	114-139
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Mozambique
Subjects:	Frelimo socialism
Abstract:	The case of Mozambique raises some basic questions concerning the problem of socialist transition in an underdeveloped country. These include the special forms required for the assumption of State power in the absence of a strong working class; the political aspects of planned economy/market economy and central/local relations; and the possibility of a dynamic perspective on the relation of party/State supremacy to worker-peasant democratic control of power. Some of these issues are addressed in this account of Poder Popular (People's Power) in Mozambique. When Frelimo held its Fourth Party Congress in 1983, major problems were unfolding in all parts of society. The number one requirement of a socialist society, to provide a minimum material standard of living to all its members, was far from being fulfilled. But a number of the decisions taken at the Congress reflected the party concern to revitalize Poder Popular as a major political force in society. Notes, ref.