Revolutionary democracy: its ideology and policies

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Title:	Revolutionary democracy: its ideology and policies
Author:	Kosukhin, Nikolai
Year:	1979
Periodical:	Social Sciences - Section of the Social Sciences, USSR Academy of Sciences
Volume:	10
Issue:	4
Pages:	50-63
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	communism socialism
Abstract:	The social changes sweeping Africa today have led to the emergence of a whole group of states which are carrying out progressive socio-economic reforms with a socialist perspective. The revolutionary democrats who are in power in these states have to overcome the resistance and pressure of foreign monopoly capital, the neocolonialists, the local compradore bourgeoisie, the feudal lords and the clan-tribal elite, and are further handicapped by a lack of a broad proletarian movement and a organisationally and politically weak working class. The article focusses on the ideological trends and policies which have become widespread in these socialist-oriented countries, their origin, formation and the evolution of their component parts and sources, and their relationship with Marxism-Leninism and social practice. Notes.