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Title:Check on Socialism in Mozambique: What Check? What socialism?
Author:Cahen, MichelISNI
Year:1993
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:20
Issue:57
Pages:46-59
Language:English
Geographic term:Mozambique
Subjects:socialism
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056249308704003
Abstract:This paper is the text of a talk given on 12 March 1992 (six months before the signing of the peace agreement between Frelimo and Renamo on 4 October) at the University of Barcelona. The Frelimo regime of Mozambique declared itself officially socialist and Marxist-Leninist as early as 1977 and many have simply accepted the funding myths of the People's Republic of Mozambique (PRM): the Marxist-Leninist credentials of the party, the socialist character of the social transformation, the popular character of power, the worker-peasant class nature of the State, and so on. The author of the present paper, however, argues that, at independence, there was no transition to socialism in Mozambique. There was a transition from colonialism to neocolonialism. The author examines the historical function of the claim by the national elites to be Marxist; the nature of Mozambican radicalism (1975-1984); the nature of the war in Mozambique; the possible future of Renamo; and the road towards power sharing.
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