Military Marxist Regimes in Africa

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Title:	Military Marxist Regimes in Africa
Editors:	Markakis, John Waller, Michael
Chapter(s):	Present
Year:	1986
Language:	English
City of publisher:	London
Publisher:	Cass
ISBN:	0714632953
Geographic term:	Africa
Subjects:	communism military regimes
Abstract:	A survey of seven radical military regimes adopting a Marxist discourse and aligning themselves diplomatically other Marxist regimes: Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, the people's Republic of Congo, Benin, Burkina Faso and Madagascar. An editorial introduces the category of regimes that will be treated and indicates some of their key characteristics; review the arguments and facts on which judgement about those regimes' Marxism should be based; and examines briefly what light is cast on the history of communism by the emergence of these regimes and by the claim that they lay to the mantle of Marx. The counterpoint of the editorial is taken up again in a concluding analytical article by Samuel DECALO, 'The morphology of military rule in Africa'. The volume closes with the political orientation speech delivered by Captain Thomas SANKARA in Ouagadougou (Upper Volta) on 2 October 1983.