African Socialism Or Socialist Africa By A.M. Babu

Description: African Socialism Or Socialist Africa By A.M. Babu. Book is bent, used accepting, no major highlighting or writing, pages show wear. ? Here, Mohamed Babu leading Zanzibari nationalist and later Minister of Economic Development in Tanzania produces the first comprehensive Socialist Programme for Africa. A life-long political activist and socialist himself, Babu sets out the key political questions which will confront Africa for the rest of the century. Dependant Capitalism under petty-bourgeois leadership, he argues, has proved itself unable to deliver rapidly rising standards of living for the mess of the African working class and peasantry. What then are the alternatives? Arguing that African Socialism in all its variations is but an ideological smokescreen that perpetuates the realities of Africa's economic dependence on Western capitalism, Babu shows that there is no 'Third Path', no 'African Way'. The international bourgeoisie, based in the West, is now too strong to allow competition from new and small national bourgeoisies in 'Third World' states. There is no capitalist path open to Africa of the kind that brought to Western Europe and North America such prosperity at the end of the last century. The only historically possible option is Socialism. That means a revolutionary political movement dominated by the African working class, and its peasant and progressive intellectual allies, it's aim must be to take power, and rapidly increase material output and solve the central problems of poverty of the masses. Nothing short of this will do. In vigorous style, and with a practical revolutionary's flair of phrase, Babu offers Africa a book that for many years to come will prove an inspiration and a strategic guideline in the struggle for socialism that is already moving faster and faster in many parts of the African continent. is a well-known political leader. He opposed the neocolonial regime of sheiks Britain left the island with at independence. After the revolution and union with Tanganyika, Babu became Minister of Economic Development in the New Tanzanian Government. He was later detained since his release has written a regular column for as well as teaching economics in the United States.

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